RH Taroon Beta Open Ports

David T Hollis dhollis at davehollis.com
Mon Aug 25 18:41:09 UTC 2003


Steve Dickson wrote:

> rhldevel at assursys.co.uk wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>
>> But to a lot of naïve users, firewalls are deeply technical things, that
>> they worry will interfere with normal usage. As a result, I believe a 
>> number
>> of such users will install with the firewall disabled, or stop it when
>> attempting to get things working - perhaps never to (re-)enable it. 
>> Having
>> things like X11, portmapper and rpc.statd listening on an external 
>> interface
>> is asking for trouble, IMHO.
>>
> For network security firewalls are the answer... not disabling network 
> applications...
> All we can do is give them the tools... but we can not shooting 
> themselves in the foot...
>
> SteveD.
>
>
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Wrong.  Security in-depth is the answer.

Good - IP ports are firewalled
Better - application is not running
Best - application is not even installed





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