> Quite a flaw in logic there, I'm sure you meant; Actually I was referring to the general laziness of sysadmins who would rather throw up a firewall in lieu of (instead of in addition to):
- Performing general OS hardening - Reconfiguring daemons that don't need to run as root - Chroot'ing processes such as pop3 and rpcbind - Shutting down processes that don't need to run at all - Installing IDS and local filtering - Running tools such as tripwire to make sure their system hasn't already been hacked - Performing any type of system auditing the list goes on _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html