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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1290931"><p>This is, I admit, purely anecdotal ... but I checked with all 17 of the public places I use Wi-Fi (asked politely to see their router) and guess what -- every single one of them has a hardware firewall already. Unsurprising these days, really.</p><p></p><p>There's a LOT of misunderstanding of what a firewall does and does NOT do. It does NOT magically protect you from ... well, much of anything more than a DDOS attack, which would also affect every other user of the Wi-Fi network. Thus, most places that offer it already have a firewall in place.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p>This part I agree with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1290931"] This is, I admit, purely anecdotal ... but I checked with all 17 of the public places I use Wi-Fi (asked politely to see their router) and guess what -- every single one of them has a hardware firewall already. Unsurprising these days, really. There's a LOT of misunderstanding of what a firewall does and does NOT do. It does NOT magically protect you from ... well, much of anything more than a DDOS attack, which would also affect every other user of the Wi-Fi network. Thus, most places that offer it already have a firewall in place. This part I agree with. [/QUOTE]
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