What are the risks to turn off firewalld on Linux Mint?
I have my macbook pro monopolized by Linux Mint 19.
How ever there is a issue keeps bothering me, the firewalld can not be stopped everytime I try to shutdown or restart the OS. To solve this, I guess I could disable the firewall one thing for all.
My question is, what are the risks to disable the firewalld on Linux Mint?
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I have my macbook pro monopolized by Linux Mint 19.
How ever there is a issue keeps bothering me, the firewalld can not be stopped everytime I try to shutdown or restart the OS. To solve this, I guess I could disable the firewall one thing for all.
My question is, what are the risks to disable the firewalld on Linux Mint?
linux networking ubuntu firewall linux-mint
asked Jan 17 at 9:48
hxpaxhxpax
1065
add a comment |
I have my macbook pro monopolized by Linux Mint 19.
How ever there is a issue keeps bothering me, the firewalld can not be stopped everytime I try to shutdown or restart the OS. To solve this, I guess I could disable the firewall one thing for all.
My question is, what are the risks to disable the firewalld on Linux Mint?
linux networking ubuntu firewall linux-mint
asked Jan 17 at 9:48
hxpaxhxpax
1065
I have my macbook pro monopolized by Linux Mint 19.
How ever there is a issue keeps bothering me, the firewalld can not be stopped everytime I try to shutdown or restart the OS. To solve this, I guess I could disable the firewall one thing for all.
My question is, what are the risks to disable the firewalld on Linux Mint?
linux networking ubuntu firewall linux-mint
linux networking ubuntu firewall linux-mint
asked Jan 17 at 9:48
hxpaxhxpax
1065
asked Jan 17 at 9:48
hxpaxhxpax
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asked Jan 17 at 9:48
hxpaxhxpax
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asked Jan 17 at 9:48
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asked Jan 17 at 9:48
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Disabling the firewall removes a layer if protection by allowing ports/services to be more widely accessible then intended. If there are no software bugs or configuration issues it should make no difference - in practice systems and people are not perfect.
If you think of security as made up of layers, you are removing 1 layer.
If you are on a home network with limited devices that you trust, and are behind a NAT gateway, you are fairly protected by that as well (but if a device on thr LAN is compromised there is one less layer of protection)
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Disabling the firewall removes a layer if protection by allowing ports/services to be more widely accessible then intended. If there are no software bugs or configuration issues it should make no difference - in practice systems and people are not perfect.
If you think of security as made up of layers, you are removing 1 layer.
If you are on a home network with limited devices that you trust, and are behind a NAT gateway, you are fairly protected by that as well (but if a device on thr LAN is compromised there is one less layer of protection)
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Disabling the firewall removes a layer if protection by allowing ports/services to be more widely accessible then intended. If there are no software bugs or configuration issues it should make no difference - in practice systems and people are not perfect.
If you think of security as made up of layers, you are removing 1 layer.
If you are on a home network with limited devices that you trust, and are behind a NAT gateway, you are fairly protected by that as well (but if a device on thr LAN is compromised there is one less layer of protection)
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Disabling the firewall removes a layer if protection by allowing ports/services to be more widely accessible then intended. If there are no software bugs or configuration issues it should make no difference - in practice systems and people are not perfect.
If you think of security as made up of layers, you are removing 1 layer.
If you are on a home network with limited devices that you trust, and are behind a NAT gateway, you are fairly protected by that as well (but if a device on thr LAN is compromised there is one less layer of protection)
answered Jan 17 at 10:21
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Disabling the firewall removes a layer if protection by allowing ports/services to be more widely accessible then intended. If there are no software bugs or configuration issues it should make no difference - in practice systems and people are not perfect.
If you think of security as made up of layers, you are removing 1 layer.
If you are on a home network with limited devices that you trust, and are behind a NAT gateway, you are fairly protected by that as well (but if a device on thr LAN is compromised there is one less layer of protection)
answered Jan 17 at 10:21
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