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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">CUPS is technically ok, it binds to
127.0.0.1 only by default, only reachable via localhost/loopback.<br>
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I'm more annoyed by things like skype and banshee that insist on
opening wide-open listening sockets on all interfaces. <br>
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Skype is microsoft, one really can't trust anything they do since
the first thing after acquisition was remove security features and
removing decentralization (probably capitulation to .gov to allow
blackbox sniffing to allow the acquisition), but sadly is almost a
necessary evil to deal with the outside world now or I'd simply
refuse as I had for years. I just assume the open socket is to
allow the nsa to direct connect and listen (assuming nat/firewalls
don't restrict this).<br>
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Banshee, not really sure why it's opening a socket. I don't
usually expect music player authors to understand well network
security aspects, one can only hope they understand at least
enough to mitigate remote code exploits via it.<br>
<br>
What's listening openly on your system?<br>
<br>
sudo netstat -anp | egrep 'tcp|udp' | grep LIST<br>
<br>
Anything NOT bound only to 127.0.0.1 is exposed when not hiding
behind a firewall or host.allow.<br>
<br>
-mb<br>
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On 10/10/2014 05:20 PM, Stephen M wrote:<br>
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This is a problem that keeps bothering me. I have a HP Laptop
that I installed Mint 17 a few months ago. When I turn on my
laptop, I scan it for open ports and find stuff like cups,
smbd, avahi-daemon.. <br>
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I have disabled them with service and removed them from start
up with update-rc.d -f <name> remove. But when I
restart my computer, they are back. I have a desktop with
Ubuntu 12.04 that I did this with and it was fine. I doubt
that Mint 17 which is suppose to be like Ubuntu 14.04, should
be having this trouble.<br>
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Stephen Melheim <br>
602-400-7707<br>
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