Re: Panther and Firewall API?
Re: Panther and Firewall API?
- Subject: Re: Panther and Firewall API?
- From: Mike Cohen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 14:31:22 -0400
My thoughts exactly.
I've always used a cable/DSL router as my firewall. I'm now using a
D-Link DI-624.
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 02:02 PM, Joshua Graessley wrote:
On Sep 2, 2003, at 6:37 AM, Huyler, Christopher M wrote:
For those of you who are paranoid about security, you should consider
another firewall to protect yourself because the built-in firewall is
severely limited by its gui. In fact, can you think of a situation
where this firewall will actually protect you? I personally think the
best use of a firewall is to block outgoing traffic, something the
apple
firewall doesn't do.
If you were seriously concerned about security and felt that a
firewall would help, you should really use a firewall on another
device. As long as the firewall is running on the local machine, it
can be disabled on the local machine by any software with root
privileges. A personal firewall that runs on the same machine is just
about the stupidest thing imaginable. It makes me think of a person
sitting on a raft with a sail and blowing on the sail to try and move
the raft.
Alas, people are easily separated from their money as many a firewall
vendor could tell you.
-josh
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