david raistrick wrote:
Everyone doesn't suddenly get "owned" because there isn't a external firewall. Modern OS's default to secure.
We clearly live and work in different worlds. Not to mention that "we" are not the average consumers anymore. We were, in the days before NAT (and SPI).
A quick mental review of my relatives indicates more than a few of them with a PC jacked into a cable modem. The only firewall is the one that comes with Windows. Sure, pretty much every company and +some+ residential service has a firewall fo some sort in place, but they aren't the automatic default that you are assuming. As you say, "live and work in different worlds." Reto -- R A Lichtensteiger rali@tifosi.com "A polar bear is just another way of expressing a rectangular bear"