Paul Webster wrote: > In general, making an outbound connection is safe, especially if the > target is reached via SSL (caveats ... e.g. faked DNS, not checking > certificates, rogue system at the end of the link). > The biggest problem comes if you enable initiation of inbound > connections (rather than a remote system responding to an outbound > connection). > For example - some people use port forwarding on their broadband router > so that they can easily access their media when they are away from > home. > Unfortunately making things easy for themselves also makes it very easy > for people with bad intent. > Those people have the benefit of cleverer people who have writeen and > share tools to automate the searching out and exploiting such links.
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