30 Jan
2010
30 Jan
'10
12:16 p.m.
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:47:57PM -0600, Bobby Mac wrote:
What are the new set of best practices for those running a NIX home computer. Yes I have a firewall and I do peruse my logs on a regular basis.
1. Don't have services listening unless you need them. 2. If you can, move needed services to nonstandard ports. If the only ports you have open are for services you want/need to access from anywhere, then you don't need a firewall.
BTW: ever drop a malformed URL to alert an admin to some thing that sucks? w3.hp.com/execs/makes/too/much/money or www.yourbuddiesdomain.com/it/is/all/rfc/space/use/1918/when/referring/to/non/routable
Yes.