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Re: [PLUG] fire wall question(s)
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> Your friend running anw windows box on a DSL without a firewall is in
> extreme danger. All you need is an open port to write to and you're in
> to do whatever you want.
I know of a company with a small network using all public IPs and no firewall.
Anyone could go in and reconfigure their print server and see all of their
shared documents. Imagine a cracker finding documents with credit card
information or passwords. Or someone sending 500 pages of pure black to the
printer at night.
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