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> There's a very good reason that so many systems block everything except port 80. Elaborate? Rather than using different ports for different protocols and fi
by mtrower 7y ago
> There's a very good reason that so many systems block everything except port 80.
Elaborate? Rather than using different ports for different protocols and filtering what you don't want/need, you instead tunnel everything through port 80 and effectively don't filter at all?
- shadowgovt 7y agoRemember when Windows installs didn't have firewalls on by default and it was pretty trivial to attack people's installations via insufficiently-secure protocols running on open ports? It was a bad time. HTTP has both elaborate tooling for deep packet analysis and a battle-hardened secured protocol, which we don't get with new protocols.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoWell, yes, we used to not care about security as much. These days, don't you think that consumer routers sold without firewalls should be about as illegal as selling cars with only motor braking ?