Why you need a firewall

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I was getting tire of the number of hits I was getting on Apache, so I 
simply shut off port 80 altogether. 
On 24 Oct 2002 at 11:58, Chris Tresco wrote:
> A lot of users out there would be absoltely flabberghasted (sp?) at the
> number of times per day my linux box acting as a router/firewall for my
> ATT Broadband cable connection is probed or attacked.  I run snort to
> log these things... I honestly get at least 100 attack attempts and
> probes per day.... it only takes one of these to work successfully for
> someone to be compromised.

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