Never mind..you guys missed the point I was making. I'm not talking about
corps. Not to mention if you are in a corp, you probably have one or more
machines allocated to you anyway. And only you. So firewalling isn't even
your issue then. Physical security is.
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Leone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:49 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Win4Lin-users] Xlib: error
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>
> On 01 Aug 2001 22:17:52 +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:31:39PM -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> >
> > > If you're the ONLY local use, who cares!
> >
> > If you *know* you are the only local user.
> >
> > > If you're firewalled and your the only local user, who
> still cares?
> >
> > User firewall their machines usually because they want
> better security for
> > the server programs they use. I.e. BECAUSE they have
> (probably many) remote
> > users.
>
> I beg to differ. In my experience, most users/organizations put up a
> firewall because of threats (and not just for server programs
> that they
> use) from the outside, and NOT because they have (any) remote users.
>
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