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Re: Worms versus Bots
- From: Valdis.Kletnieks
- Date: Thu May 06 11:10:47 2004
On Thu, 06 May 2004 11:45:23 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum said:
> I object to the idea that requiring a software firewall inside a host
> is a reasonable thing to do. Why on earth would I want to run an
> insecure service and then have a filter to keep it from being used?
You object to it, I object to it... but the fact remains that 95% of the
user-accessible CPUs (not counting the embedded market) are running software
that you have to do unreasonable things in order to make it anywhere near safe
to use....
> Either I really want to run the service, and then the firewall gets in
> the way, or I don't need the service to be reachable, so I shouldn't
> run it. System services should only be available over the loopback
> address. Now obviously this is way too simple for some OS builders, but
> we shouldn't accept their ugly hacks as best current practice.
"Best Current Practice" is *so* divergent from "Currently Deployed Practice"
that there's little or no common ground.
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