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Secure by Default
Jason Miller, 2004-05-13

Why "Secure By Default" is a step in the right direction.

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ISPs should all provide secure by default internet access. 2004-05-14
Anonymous (5 replies)
ISPs should all provide secure by default internet access. 2004-05-17
Todd Knarr (3 replies)
Maybe ICQ could be secure by default too? 2004-05-19
Anonymous
Thank you for your feedback. I hadn't thought about ICQ and similar
client applications but maybe they could be accommodated by both
clients trying to talk to each other at the same time so creating
openings in both their firewalls.

These client applications must either have particular IP addresses
they always want to talk to or they retrieve dynamic IP addresses
from an intermediary server of some sort which they find using DNS or
suchlike. So if the intermediary gives both the clients the other's
IP address and the clients then try to talk to each other at the same
time couldn't two correctly configured stateful firewalls allow the
clients to talk to each other? This would seem better than giving
the whole internet continuous access to the clients.



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Secure by Default 2004-05-14
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Mac OS X 2004-05-16
Enoch (1 replies)
Mac OS X 2004-05-24
Anonymous (1 replies)
Mac OS X 2004-05-25
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