Joao C. Ferreira wrote:
>
>Why is SSH port forwarding not secure??? (sorry, it's not related
directly
>to the quastion, but it made me curious, since SSH port forwarding is
>suposed tobe a secure port forwarding method).
>
>Thanks,
>Joao.
>
Essentially because it transfers the port from a remote machine to
your machine. The data that is transfered between these two machines
is encrypted but the port that is open on your machine is exactly like
the port that is open on the remote machine.
If your machine is not behind a firewall then that port is now open on
the Internet. If the remote machine was behind a firewall, then
you've just exposed a port on the Internet that was previously
protected.
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