Changeset 1ea79a1 for postlfs/security/firewalling/intro.xml

Timestamp:

05/30/2004 05:30:47 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

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Children:

1dad4a4

Parents:

4ea49a31

Message:

Typos and punctuation

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@2236 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

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• postlfs/security/firewalling/intro.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

postlfs/security/firewalling/intro.xml

@@ -5 +5 @@
 against malicious access by using a single machine as a firewall. 
 This does imply that the firewall is to be considered a single point 
-of failure, but it can make the administrators life a lot easier.</para>
+of failure, but it can make the administrator's life a lot easier.</para>
 
 <para>In a perfect world where you knew that every daemon or service 
@@ -11 +11 @@
 buffer-overflows and any other imaginable problem regarding its 
 security, and where you trusted every user accessing your services 
-to aim no harm, you wouldn't need to do have a firewall!  
+to aim no harm, you wouldn't need to have a firewall!  
 In the real world however, daemons may be misconfigured, 
 exploits against essential services are freely available, you 
@@ -21 +21 @@
 
 <para>Don't assume however, that having a firewall makes careful
-configuration redundant, nor that it makes any negligent
-misconfiguration harmless, nor that it prevents anyone from exploiting a
+configuration redundant, or that it makes any negligent
+misconfiguration harmless. It also doesn't prevent anyone from exploiting a
 service you intentionally offer but haven't recently updated or patched
 after an exploit went public.  Despite having a firewall, you need to
@@ -40 +40 @@
 companies such as Symantec, of which they claim or pretend that it
 secures a home or desktop-pc with Internet access. This topic is 
-highly relevant for users who do not know the ways their computers 
-might be accessed via the Internet and how to disable these, 
-especially if they are always online and if they are connected via 
+highly relevant for users who do not know the methods their computers 
+might be accessed via the Internet or how to disable them, 
+especially if they are always online and connected via 
 broadband links.</para></sect3>
 
@@ -59 +59 @@
 performing masquerading or routing functions, but offering a bunch of 
 services, e.g., web-cache, mail, etc.  This may be very commonly used 
-for home networks, but can definitely not to be considered as secure 
+for home networks, but can definitely not be considered as secure 
 anymore because the combining of server and router on one machine raises 
 the complexity of the setup.</para></sect3>