[Gllug] how safe is linux against identity thief

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On 24 Mar 2009, Harry Rickards said:
>              I used iptables as an example, as as far as I can tell  
> (I'm not a security expert, as you can probably tell) it seems to be  
> the industry standard.

Less 'industry standard' more 'the kernel's built-in firewall and works
perfectly well'.

It is very unlikely that any Linux distro these days (or for the last
half-decade or so) doesn't come with an iptables firewall set up by
default upon installation.
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