Re: Symantic Firewall 100 - Pro/Con Comments Please

From: Markus Kraus (mkr_at_gmxpro.de)
Date: 03/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:10:36 -0800

On 03 Mar 2004 20:49:02 GMT, jealous xmp wrote:

>>That said, I also disliked that the web interface is only HTTP, not
>>HTTPS.
>
>Theoretically HTTPS is better. But if you have an employee trying to wreak
>havoc with a sniffer, you may have bigger problems than him just reconfiguring
>your firewall.

Hi,

no "employees" here. Like I said, I used it at home, for my home LAN.
Just my girlfriend with her Laptop PC, me with a couple of PCs, and my
two kids with their PCs each.

I was more concerned about me using WLAN on my Laptop PC. Before I
switched to a rock-solid VPN-enforced WLAN connection a couple of days
ago (see the other thread), I had only 128bit WEP and MAC filters for
WLAN security, which I considered as weak and too easy to crack. So I
didn't dare to configure my Symantec 100 through the WLAN AP - if one
would have been able to crack the 128bit WEP encryption, I would had
given him my Symantec 100 password for free, since it wasn't HTTPS. So
I always switched to a wired connection whenever I wanted to configure
the Symantec.

>And he can always backdoor / keylog..

You're right; I didn't think of that.

Best regards,
Markus

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