Re: What's the point of not allowing all outgoing traffic by default?

On 27 May 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
<1180334253.293250.146270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ramon F Herrera wrote:

linuxlover992...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

As time goes by, I discover now that I accumulated a long list of
"allow" that amounts to *almost* openning all ports... which brings
the obvious question: why make it so complicated and tedious, when I
can simply allow all outbound traffic and be done with all the hassle?

Yours is a philosophical question.

No, it's technical and you seem to have missed the point

You want to secure your home and being a good neighbor. That implies:

(1) Blocking the thieves, bad guys, neighbor's children, etc. from
entering your house.

The above is obvious, and many people don't realize that they should
also:

(2) Prevent your own kids from going to your neighbor's home and
breaking things.

1. Software is not a substitute for parenting. If you haven't taught
your kids "right" from "wrong" then you are the one at fault, not the
kids, and no pathetic effort you may now make is going to fix that.

2. You don't seem to have the first idea of how TCP/IP works, despite
it being in use for twenty-four years - and in common use by the
clueless for nearly half that.

1118 Hitchhikers guide to the Internet. E. Krol. September 1989.
(Format: TXT=62757 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

1180 TCP/IP tutorial. T.J. Socolofsky, C.J. Kale. January 1991.
(Format: TXT=65494 bytes) (Status: INFORMATIONAL)

As you are posting from a search engine, why not use it for it's
intended purpose and _search_ for RFC1118 and RFC1180 - who knows, you
might learn something.

Old guy
.

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