On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:59 PM, John-Mark Gurney <[email protected]> wrote:
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> If you have a trusted network, why not just use nc?


Defense in depth for starters.

The ipfw how to guide I learned from years ago, started with the
statement that a
firewall should be a shield in front of machines that don't need the shield.

Security is hard, and you will get it wrong (everyone does),
accidentally exposing
an encrypted stream is much less of a mistake than exposing a plaint
text stream.


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