[MLB-WIRELESS] Private network? I think not...
dwayne
ddraig at pobox.com
Tue Oct 30 18:17:22 EST 2001
Adrian Close wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, David Arnold wrote:
>
> > hacking like this, gaming, multimedia, VoIP, etc are all viable
> > on what is essentially a private network.
>
> The more I think about this (and I've been doing so for some years now)
> the more I am convinced that there is no such thing as a "private
> network". If you connect it to the Internet, it becomes part of the
> Internet.
no way, we can firewall packets internally so they don't get out on the
net, and restrict what comes in and goes where.
Hell, think "intranet"
> Even if you don't connect it to the Internet (unlikely, in my view), you
> should assume that it is, because it will be...
Connecting it to the internet is entirely seperate from getting it up
and running locally.
Dwayne
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