RE: Shuttle & via epia... now firewalls

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

> > 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.
> 
> To access those files, you'd need to enable more services 
> which would open 
> up more possible holes.

I would need to open port 80, as am running andromeda.
The alternative would involve opening port 80 on some other machine
inside
the network.

> > Also, not all security breaches are that fatal.  whoopee -
> someone does
> > a DOS attack that crashes out my web server.
> 
> ....or uses your machine to DoS a lawyer's server....

I said not all attacks are fatal, which includes being fatal to someone
else's machine.
I'm not denying that ppl can get into machines and use them to attack
other
machines.
I am saying that not all security breaches result in this.

> > 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?
> 
> For you?  No.

Exactly.  How many other ppl on the list are running home servers to
check
their light on/off status, play music, program their tivo etc?
I am not suggesting this is ideal for a corporate network, merely
saying
that, in a home/amateur environment, it is not necessarily essential to
have
the same level of security as you would in a company.
If it was, well we'd all have security guards and patrol dogs too 24hrs
a
day guarding our premises as if it were a bank vault.

> > 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.
> 
> It is.

Thought so,

> > I am strictly a Micro$shaft shop.
> 
> OK, it's equivalent to someone getting console access as 
> "Administrator".  

What's a 'console'? :-)



Tony


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