mysec
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Re: Place your bets - Closed vs Stealthed
said by Link Logger  :I would be highly amazed if I lost this system to some evil hacker, closed is closed and is in effect the same as banging your head against a brick wall (stealthed) as banging your head against a locked steel door (closed, ... Of course! And you may remember we discussed this a bit last year, and I ran for four days on a Win2K system with all ports closed except 135. I left the firewall enabled but all inbound traffic permitted, so that I could log everything.
I was arguing that the average home system doesn't even need a firewall if everything is configured properly - which, of course, I do not advocate unless the user is completely sure that the system is tight.
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Link Logger
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said by SnowyOne :Is there any more danger to running closed vs stealth? That would depend on what's running & who's running it.  I would be highly amazed if I lost this system to some evil hacker, closed is closed and is in effect the same as banging your head against a brick wall (stealthed) as banging your head against a locked steel door (closed, you know its a door, but its not going to open so the effect is just the same as banging your head against the brick wall).
Blake
Edit -> added the 'locked' to the steel door |
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