Agreed.

Post #169,641 by pwhysall 8/17/04 10:31:52 AM Reply	Agreed. Separate hardware firewalls are not only conceptually and practically better in every way, they're cheap, too. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #169,644 by ChrisR 8/17/04 10:34:18 AM Reply	Personal firewalls suck but... ...if your laptop copulates with several different networks, or you plug into a hotel LAN, then you don't necessarily have the advantage of having a hardware firewall available.
Post #169,645 by deSitter 8/17/04 10:35:50 AM Reply	Re: Personal firewalls suck but... I very much doubt that hotels are unprotected. But, given the level of smarts these days, anything is possible. -drl
Post #169,648 by ChrisR 8/17/04 10:38:49 AM Reply	Blaster infected several hotel networks And most ISP's seem to take the attitude of not blocking any particular ports (at least that's been the attitude that I've seen).
Post #169,650 by inthane-chan 8/17/04 10:41:31 AM Reply	And that's the way I like it. Block ports on a user-by-user basis if somebody has turned into a Zombie - better yet, cut their connection, and don't reconnect it until they clean their PC. I just want a fat pipe, no blocked ports, and the right to Do As I Will with my hardware. What will we do when we are Gods?
Post #169,677 by drewk 8/17/04 1:04:20 PM Reply	Aren't you supposed to be a cynic? I read an article a while back where the author plugged his laptop into a hotel network, clicked Network Neighborhood, and promptly saw a dozen other hotel guests' machines. Granted, they shouldn't have been sharing, but if I were staying there I'd like to think other guests don't have a direct line to my system. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #169,721 by deSitter 8/17/04 4:32:26 PM Reply	Thou shalt not run NetBIOS over TCP/IP -drl

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