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?


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jonheal

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