RE: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls

["BUTLER, Tony, FM" <tony.butler@xxxxxxx>]

> Agreed, but IF your firewall is compromised, this will probably
give
> access to ALL the machine within the network it protects. Also,
you

Stuart - if your firewall is compromised, you're buggered anyway.
Having a load of MP3/WMA files on there makes bugger all difference to
that.
Whether the files are stored there or on another machine on the network
makes not a jot of difference.
Also, not all security breaches are that fatal.  whoopee - someone
does a
DOS attack that crashes out my web server.
No biggie, I'll fix it when I get home.
If it was a corportate site then yes, it's a problem - but for a home
lan,
if I suddenly can't access my tivo over the web, or streaming music off
the
server stops then it's not exactly catastrophic now is it?

> should consider the implications of your compormised firewall 
> then being
> used to do "harm" to more sensitive systems. If you've ever
had a
> machine root compromised you know all about it. If you've not had
a
> machine root compromised keep your fingers crossed and hope that
you
> don't. It only takes a crafty lawyer for a big corprate to decide
that

Sorry, I don't know what a machine root is, so I can't say if I've had
mine
compromised or not (oh-er missues).
Sounds like a lit of a *nixy term to me.
I am strictly a Micro$shaft shop.
(Apart from my TiVo)



Tony


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