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Re: Are M10's Secure?

From: Juha Saarinen <juha_at_saarinen.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 13:53:10 +1200 (NZST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004071350510.26030-100000@vimfuego.saarinen.org>

> A company in Ak is selling desktop firewall boxes on the basis that M10s are
> insecure and hackable.
>
> Does anyone know of any case of this happening?

If you don't open up any pinholes (ie. NAT) to systems behind the M10, and
don't allow access to the M10 from over the Internet, I don't see how the
M10s are any more or less secure than any old router.

--Juha

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