Full Protection

[nikita69]

Originally posted by Wednesday@29 October 2003 - 19:40
Is our internet security as tight as we think it is?

NO. Electronic Transmmition in general is based on 0 & 1. If someone creates a program or a hardware for certain functions (ZERO), then someone else can create counter functions (ONE) to such program or hardware.

EDIT: unless we have multiple AI based super computers created by geniouses in the AI Neurophysics arena, then it's a possibility.

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[Wednesday]

Originally posted by 4play@29 October 2003 - 17:09

nice to see that agnitum outpost came out top i have been using it for a long while.

yeah a friend of mine uses outpost because he thinks that ZA can't cut it, but, so far ZA has worked well for me.

[darkewolf]

the only firewall that is one hundred percent bulletproof against internet attacks is an empty space between the outlet in the wall and the port in your computer that it jacks into. if you arent connected to the internet, you might be safe.
Yeah, some work better than others, and some just dont work....but nothing is 100%. It's all a matter of what you are comfortable dealing with, and without; how paranoid you are (nothing wrong with paranoid...it keeps you alive); and who you piss off/what they know about the internet.

And I can see the ZA vs Sygate discussion coming, so I'm gonna go ahead and say this before it starts: the regular, free firewall that Sygate offers is NOT a full blown firewall, it has limitations placed upon it, unless you buy it...in which case, you are better off just going with the PRO version of it.

that said, I took the test at the flank test link that was posted, and my generic-off-the-shelf-from-circuit city Linksys Router passed all their tests with absolutely flying colors. Whereas the tests that were run on it from www.sygate.com came up with holes in it, as did one from one of the other sites that I ran it from, but I.....cant remember what the other site was. But I found it by going to yahoo and doing a search for "firewall test".

I'd really like it if somebody that was running that firewall that came with XP home would run the test, and give a generic report of how it did. Just to see if MS is full of hot air, or if they actually have bragging rights.