On Dec 16, 2007 6:01 PM, F. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think running *any* system in this modern age without some kind of > firewall protection - even if it's just software on the end box itself - > is an invitation to disaster; doing it with a server is suicide. =:oD
This is WindowsPC thinking. If on your server you perform a netstat -L and see that only TOR and SSH are listening, and your 'firewall' would have let those things through anyways, then a 'firewall' is providing no additional security, only some increased robustness against future misconfiguration. Can firewalling be useful even in this situation, yes, but to call it "suicide" is non-sense.
