Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:46:25 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why use a firewall with dialup? Message-ID: <20041113224625.GD60526@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <200411131345.07795.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20041113211237.GA54907@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200411131345.07795.kstewart@owt.com>
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On Sat, Nov 13, 2004, Kent Stewart wrote: >On Saturday 13 November 2004 01:12 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: >> I've been using one for some time, but now that I have a mini network, it >> has become a bit of a hassle updating the rules. >> >> If I disable all services but ssh, stay STABLE, and do not have a broadband >> connection, what danger is there? >> > >The script kiddies don't target broadband. They step through IP blocks. You >are just as much at risk with dialup as you are with broadband. The only >difference is the time of exposure. The only time I've ever had a Linux box cracked was when I was using my laptop with a Ricochet wireless modem. I hadn't hardened the laptop because I was lazy, and it had never been out in the wild before, living on our internal LAN behind our firewalls and NAT. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise,'' said Cash McCall, ``but when one of our citizens show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best to make him feel that he ought to be ashamed of himself.'' -- Cameron Hawley
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