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|    25 Oct 12 12:26:10    |
      > But from Enric his reply it's not dangerous, but anyway i dont like it that       > way.               JK> The reason he says it is not dangerous is because you are in this        JK> case, only opening up those ports to receive, not to send.              that's a bad view... it allows any and all external sources to beat on any and       all of those ports to see if they can find a way in even if there is nothing       actually listening on those ports... the network stack still has to handle the       traffic if even only to drop it...              )\/(ark               * Origin: (1:3634/12)    |
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