From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 20 20:55:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98D937B405 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.152.183]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.13 201-229-121-113) with ESMTP id <20011120224208.MLWU1072.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:42:08 +0000 Received: from boog.goatsucker.org (boog.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.3]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAKMg7n02129; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:42:07 GMT (envelope-from scott@boog.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by boog.goatsucker.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA05186; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:41:18 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 22:41:18 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Lars Eighner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <20011120224118.C381@localhost> References: <20011120050329.A971@xor.obsecurity.org> <20011120150948.H23357-100000@dumpster.io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20011120150948.H23357-100000@dumpster.io.com>; from eighner@io.com on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:20:14PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 03:20:14PM -0600, Lars Eighner wrote: > Home PCs do not need the level of security that servers need because > the machines are physically secure and no one is logging in from off > site. I would hope that your servers are more physically secure than some random home PC :-) As for the network, take one unsecured home PC, mix in an always-on broadband connection and pretty soon half the s'kiddies in the universe are logging on to launch DoS attacks from your box... The stuff on my home machine is just as important to me as anything on my employers servers; I take essentially the same security precautions in both cases. Heck, even Windows ships with a firewall these days, so there's really no excuse not to. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message