gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » firewalls http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Security without Firewalls discussionhttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/06/05/security-without-firewalls-discussion/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/06/05/security-without-firewalls-discussion/#comments Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:15:30 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/06/05/security-without-firewalls-discussion/ You might remember that I wrote an article in late november called Beginners Guide to securing your pc. You might remember as well that I suggested that there was no need for a desktop firewall at all. And you might even remember that I got some pretty bad comments about my suggestion in the comments section.

I found an article from searchsecurity.com today entitled Security without firewalls: Sensible or silly which comes to a similar conclusion six months laters. I´am not saying I was the first to advocate systems without firewalls, or at least without desktop firewalls, but it seems I was definatly not the last one to catch this security concept.

I´d be interested to hear your opinion on the matter. Are you using a firewall ? If so what kind of firewall, build in (like windows xp firewall), desktop (like outpost) or even a hardware firewall ?

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