What is wrong with firestarter?

[Knapp]

On 8/27/08, ghe <ghe at slsware.com> wrote:
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> Knapp wrote:
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> | I just rescanned my computer with the shield site and it found 2 open
> | ports 22 and 80. I know that 22 only works with keys
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> This ain't necessarily so. SSH can be set to accept passwords. In that
> case the only keys involved are the ones identifying the computers. A
> remote login would be tightly encrypted, but that connection could be
> established as easily as with telnet.
Sorry, that should have read I know that my 22 only works with public
keys. I turned off the passwords.



> | so it should be
> | safe but what about Apache?
>
> Apache's a pretty well done piece of software, so it's reasonably safe
> to run. But if you aren't serving stuff with it, there's no reason for
> it to even be running.

It is serving a web site. My web site.

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> Glenn English
> ghe at slsware.com
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