Re: Microsoft urging users to buy Harware Firewalls

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

"Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com> writes:

> I agree with Microsoft's recommendation for a hardware firewall on all
> home PCs.

There is no thing such as a hardware firewall.

Typical SoHo routers have a much more defective TCP/IP stack than
Windows.  Most end users (who can't configure their Windows PCs
properly) won't be able to control such devices.  If a substantial
population uses such routers nevertheless, this only leads to more and
more protocols tunneled over HTTP. *sigh*

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