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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 1290978" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>Of course they do. But everyone else on that network is behind the firewall, and you're exposed to all of them.</p><p></p><p>The sweet looking girl at the next table over in your local Starbucks may not be out to get you, but her zombified Dell may well be.</p><p></p><p>And yes, there is a lot of misunderstanding about what a firewall does. And DDoS attacks are <strong>not</strong> what a firewall protects you against (some do, but that's not what the OS X firewall does.) Firewalls prevent outsiders from connecting to services on your computer. Not planning to run any network services? Great! Using the firewall won't affect you at all; you'll never even know it's there. Set it and forget it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 1290978, member: 4134"] Of course they do. But everyone else on that network is behind the firewall, and you're exposed to all of them. The sweet looking girl at the next table over in your local Starbucks may not be out to get you, but her zombified Dell may well be. And yes, there is a lot of misunderstanding about what a firewall does. And DDoS attacks are [b]not[/b] what a firewall protects you against (some do, but that's not what the OS X firewall does.) Firewalls prevent outsiders from connecting to services on your computer. Not planning to run any network services? Great! Using the firewall won't affect you at all; you'll never even know it's there. Set it and forget it. [/QUOTE]
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