On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 17:50 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > I understand that if there is not a service listening on the ports > that are open the risk is minimized. It's the other way around. Not listening to a port has zero risks. A firewall can minimises a risk if there's something there, but a firewall won't absolutely protect you, and does absolutely nothing if there isn't anything to receive a connection anyway. It's got to an order of magnitude harder to get something onto a box that will create a risk. And if they can get something onto the box, all the firewalling in the world is going to be moot. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
