On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On donderdag, aug 14, 2003, at 17:45 Europe/Amsterdam, Christopher L. > Morrow wrote: > > >> No answer on that one, However Mac OS X also includes a built in > >> firewall. > > > yes, with fairly a simple method to add listening services to it... > > though > > it seems the 'listening service' might have to register with the OS in > > order to be seen in the preferences panel? Oh, and lest I forget > > (which I > > did) press the 'START' button to make it active :) > > ...which is completely redundant because MacOS X doesn't expose any > services except the ones that the user enabled in the first place. or things like livewire/kazaa/aim (filedownloads) > > So enabling the firewall is only useful if you don't trust the > applications you're running. > yup. but its nice that it has the damned firewall anyway :)
