Mark Lanctot;161935 Wrote: > SlimServer was not really designed for high security. With its ports > wide open, who knows what a determined hacker can do with it? > > Plus an open port puts up a red flag to all the bots out there looking > for interesting IPs. A hacker may come back and do some further > investigation - finding other things that may be much more dangerous > and that he can exploit immediately.
Now, here's where my lack of networking expertise comes into play ... if a port is open, but nothing's listening on it, or in this case, only SlimServer, is the only way into the network through that port, THROUGH Slimserver? -- jonheal Jon Heal says: Have a nice day! http://www.theheals.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jonheal's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2133 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30564 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
