Opening a port on your firewall is like unlocking a door on your house. The security implications depend on who or what is waiting behind that door. As long as the software that answers the "door" is robust and can't be duped there is no problem.
Unfortunately it is very difficult to write software that meets those requirements. Even people trying to write the kind of the software that should expect to come under attack often don't get it right (think of all the IE, FF etc. patches that have to be issued). I don't want to cast aspersions but I'd be very surprised if SlimServer had been written with that level of security in mind. As for what might happen if someone breaks in using Slimserver:The worst case scenario is that they take control over the machine that SlimServer is running on without you knowing. From there they have full access to your network and can browse all the storage attached to it. -- AndrueC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrueC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6612 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30564 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
