On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 12:52:14PM -0500, John Hall wrote: > In what cases is an integrated firewall in a good home router insufficient? > If it's not necessary could this unit actually compromise security? >
Two different directions: 1. home routers are often targets of attack because: there are thousands of them, they don't get updated code, they are often managed badly or set to defaults, and the people depending on them might not even notice. 2. anything in your path can compromise security. The question is, given that the ISP already controls the upstream router, is there anything that they can do with the local box that they can't do upstream? To which the answer is, maybe, but why bother? -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
