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Re: [LUG] Linux - and security

 

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:30 AM, malcolm wrote:
> Do you think a personal firewall like Ubuntu's ufw is necessary in a home
> environment or is the router's firewall sufficient (with the other measures
> you suggest) for the current level of threat?

After I add a disclaimer that I don't know very much about both
existing and possible future threats on Linux, nor do I know a great
deal about firewalls, I think that in a home environment, running a
firewall on the router is generally sufficient.

But then, if it doesn't hurt your experience of using the computer, I
don't see why you wouldn't run an internal firewall was well. For one
thing, it does help bad stuff from spreading inside the network.

Martijn.

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