On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:09:34PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > > Either you trust the situations good and allow packets out, or...well > I dread to think.
Unless you are the only person ever using the computer or any computer on the network *and* you can guarantee 100% that nothing malicious ever gets onto your box and phones home, then you should never trust outbound traffic. Egress filtering is your friend. Learn it. Love it. :D -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
