Re: Recurrent question

Kerodo <loopback@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
["Personal Firewalls"]
> But a lot of people are not safe in their internet habits and for them,
> a pf might be useful, more so than just the Windows firewall. It might
> not be what you'd call "security", but it can still be useful.

To make that clear: here we can meet.

Of course, some people who are using, let's say, Sygate as analysis tool
for network connections, can use it, and it's useful for them.

I have nothing against this point of view. This might be true. I personally
would prefer other tools for network analysis, but why not?

My point is, that no-one managed to show me that "Personal Firewalls"
are increasing the level of security of PCs for their primary users,
the home users. At least they're doing this not compared with best
practice (stopping TCP servers and RPC) or the Windows-Firewall.

But I have many facts here that lead to the perception that "Personal
Firewalls" _decrease_ the level of security of PCs for their primary
users, the home users. As a result of these facts, I'm judging, that
"Personal Firewalls" at least are useless for the security of a home
user's PC, and in many cases even are dangerous.

If you have other sights and views, I'm happy to hear them. Maybe sometimes
in the future there will be _one_ _single_ manufacturer of a "Personal
Firewall", who will implement useful and sensible things, like a Tor or
AN.ON client, or an easy to use OpenPGP implementation, or at least
_anything_, with which an home user can do something sensible.

Perhaps. *sigh*

Yours,
VB.
--
"Ich bin ein freier Mensch und werde jetzt von meinen Freiheitsrechten
Gebrauch machen - und zwar ausgiebig - natürlich nur in dem Rahmen, den
Otto Schily mir noch zur Verfügung stellt."
Wolfgang Clement am 10.10.05 als Noch-Superminister
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