[Nottingham] Ubuntu/firewalls (lack of)/wine

[Martin]

Martin Garton wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Alan Pope wrote:
> 
> 
>>Unlikely, but entirely possible.
> 
> 
> It's often the unlikely things that cause the biggest problems in the end.


And this is where it /is/ /useful/ to have multiple layers of security, 
mainly just to trap admin mistakes. The penalty is in the extra admin 
required and the time needed to acquire a deeper understanding of the 
system...


For casual users with no services on linux surfing the web, a firewall 
is still superfluous. (On MS, the firewall very usefully plugs some of 
the glaring OS holes and exploits!)


Cheers,
Martin

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