Re: Hack attempts

[Jim Higson <jh 333 org>]

> Can you harden a linux system as good or better than a cheap hardware
> firewall, you may be able to today, someone new maybe not.

Well, there's always firewall-specific distros - smoothwall and the like. I'm 
pretty sure a newbie could work out how to set up a hardened Linux network in 
less than 10 minuites with a Smoothwall CD. Ok, that's slightly cheating 
because it's turning an old computer into a cheap hardware firewall.

Besides, I've always thought the default security with Redhat/Fedora was 
pretty good. Just not selecting any services to let through the local 
firewall in the graphical installer should be good enough.