[Gllug] how safe is linux against identity thief

[Harry Rickards]

Quoting Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org>:

> On 24 Mar 2009, at 11:30, Harry Rickards wrote:
>
>> Are you using iptables for the firewall? (I'm not familiar with Ubuntu
>> Firewall.)
>
> What do you suggest that Lucy would have solved by doing so?
>
> Please don't top-post.
>
> /joel
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Sorry about the top posting, just forgot. If Lucy had accidently  
installed a piece of malicious software that was running a server on  
the machine, then I believe iptables (if set up correctly) would stop  
remov=te machines connecting to the server.

Harry


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