Firewalls (Was Re: What's a good Cable provider?)

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Author: Victor Odhner
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Old-Topics: Re: What's a good Cable provider?
Subject: Firewalls (Was Re: What's a good Cable provider?)
Jonathan Claxton wrote:

>Just one little suggestion, get s firewall setup. I got one running IPCop in a separate
>box between the cable modem and my home system, keeps all them nosy people out. :)
>
>

Supposing one does not (yet) have a separate firewall in place between
the PC and Cox.
How exposed is a Bastille/psad-hardened desktop-usage box with virtually
all services turned off?

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