On Wednesday 01 August 2001 3:48 pm, Michael Leone wrote:
> On 01 Aug 2001 22:17:52 +0200, Jens Benecke wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:31:39PM -0500, Gonyou, Austin wrote:
> > > If you're the ONLY local use, who cares!
> >
> > If you *know* you are the only local user.
> >
> > > If you're firewalled and your the only local user, who still cares?
> >
> > User firewall their machines usually because they want better security
> > for the server programs they use. I.e. BECAUSE they have (probably many)
> > remote users.
>
> I beg to differ. In my experience, most users/organizations put up a
> firewall because of threats (and not just for server programs that they
> use) from the outside, and NOT because they have (any) remote users.
I completely agree, and in fact I would even go so far as to say that anyone
running on a high speed internet connection WITHOUT a firewall is just asking
for trouble.
--
Jonathan L. Haase
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Programmer/Technician
Network Operations Center
I-Land Internet Services
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