28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
7:28 p.m.
and operating system would be safer sitting behind a "firewall" pretty much marked the end of universal end-to-end connectivity, and I don't see it
An OS-level (software) firewall doesn't preclude end-to-end connectivity, and even a per-machine hardware firewall doesn't given it can pass inbound traffic through. Most servers on the Internet are also behind hardware firewalls, and they don't hinder end-to-end connectivity.
Last I checked most "firewall"s don´t make these machines safe, it might make them safer, so only two out of three malwares hit them.
A probably configured firewall will protect a machine against everything but it's user, and therein lies a problem you will likely never solve. Adam