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From: Heiko Baums <lists@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:42:27
Message-Id: 20180302124217.2a10977f@lexx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall? by Rich Freeman
1 Am Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:45:46 -0500
2 schrieb Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>:
3
4 > If they did move netfilter to userspace, then it would
5
6 most likely be more insecure because a userspace process can be easier
7 bypassed, killed, hacked or whatever. That's a lot harder with the
8 kernel if not impossible.
9
10 See all those personal firewalls for Windows like Kerio Personal
11 Firewall, Zone Alarm or whatever when Windows didn't have its own
12 firewall.
13
14 I hope netfilter will never move to userspace. And I'm pretty sure it
15 won't.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall? Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>