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Re: quietly....
From: R A Lichtensteiger <rali+nanog () tifosi com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:34:43 -0500
david raistrick wrote:
Everyone doesn't suddenly get "owned" because there isn't a external firewall. Modern OS's default to secure.We clearly live and work in different worlds. Not to mention that "we" are not the average consumers anymore. We were, in the days before NAT (and SPI).
A quick mental review of my relatives indicates more than a few of them with a PC jacked into a cable modem. The only firewall is the one that comes with Windows. Sure, pretty much every company and +some+ residential service has a firewall fo some sort in place, but they aren't the automatic default that you are assuming. As you say, "live and work in different worlds." Reto -- R A Lichtensteiger rali () tifosi com "A polar bear is just another way of expressing a rectangular bear"
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- Re: quietly...., (continued)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... Matthew Huff (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... david raistrick (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... david raistrick (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... david raistrick (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... R A Lichtensteiger (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Joel Jaeggli (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 04)
- RE: quietly.... George Bonser (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 05)