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I don't think the scenario you're presenting is realistic. Either an exposed PC on the internet has its own firewall, or it's already exploited.
by stephengillie 13y ago
I don't think the scenario you're presenting is realistic. Either an exposed PC on the internet has its own firewall, or it's already exploited.
- tokenizerrr 13y agoSame lan network?
- stephengillie 13y agoAre you skyping people down the hall instead of walking to visit them? I can see a feasible argument for this when you're talking about routing it through your WAN, but if you're that concerned about internal security then you should roll your own voicechat solution that you can keep on your own self-hosted (non-cloud) internal servers.
- riquito 13y agoIt's common practice to use a chat system inside a company, and instead of people shouting or constantly walking to their peers everyone write from their pc instead of visit the others (for most of the little requests).
- lucaspiller 13y agoA lot of companies still give each employee a telephone on their desk too.
- jaredmcateer 13y agoMy company did, I unplugged it and put it under my desk when it became apparent 99% of the people calling me were telemarketers and recruiters cold calling the entire directory.
- pwnna 13y agoIRC!
- tokenizerrr 13y agoYup. Web development company with a few floors of employees. Everyone has it installed, and it works fantastic for quick questions or sending someone a big database dump (beacuse it currently goes over LAN).
- zurn 13y agoNope - centralised network firewalls never became popular for consumer users. Microsoft started shipping a default-on host firewall in XP SP2, those let the user get prompted on what apps to allow. Lately corporations have been moving to host firewalls too since the "crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside" intranet mindset is increasingly incompatible with the modern world.
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