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honestly if software were well designed and had sane configuration defaults, we wouldn't really need (basic, port-filtering only) firewalls

basically "why is anything listening on a port in a public interface, if it's not meant to be public"

ofc this thought of mine assumes that everything is perfect, real world is not so those firewalls basically provide some redundancy

Laurent Bercot · 2w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqf67qrzm95xe497g0jda70x6uxwr9ru2j39sg38axfj4ff05c979q3gaasw even in 2000 when I learned about configuring a router I was like... why do people keep talking about packet filtering on unused ports? if a port is unused then by definition no service ...

Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: · 2w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqf67qrzm95xe497g0jda70x6uxwr9ru2j39sg38axfj4ff05c979q3gaasw Yeah, I tend to regard firewalls as a clutch/band-aid to bad OS/application design, and it's sometimes annoyingly hard to have one sitting at the right layer. There's few things where I...