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I'm the opposite. I strongly dislike these services as I feel they are not needed in many situations and open up the vulnerability potential, especially if your
by arminiusreturns 6y ago
I'm the opposite. I strongly dislike these services as I feel they are not needed in many situations and open up the vulnerability potential, especially if your system is ever on a network not controlled by you (laptop at cafe, etc). I turn them all off/disable/uninstall them.
- ken 6y agoIf you're on an untrusted network, run a firewall. An open network port isn't much safer just because you're not announcing it. People looking to attack your local web service at Starbucks probably know how to portscan.
- arminiusreturns 6y agoThe point is that instead of an open port for a service you close all the ports you dont need open, and then firewall what you do need. I'm saying stuff like avahi isn't needed in my case so I turn it off and of course thats not the only measure so I run a firewall amongst other things...