Re: Need recommendations on security

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| Frog Prince wrote:
|
| >> How about 'so that I won't be so much trouble to you all the time'  ?
| >
| > That's a possibility but we're over there on the slightest whim
| > regardless. If she sees my light on early in the morning I'll get a
| > phone call 'biscuits are just coming out of the oven and coffee is
| > hot'
|
| That's not at all the same thing as not wanting to be any trouble.  Just
| the opposite.  Payback.

And a chance to bend my ear about the 'way back times'. Like how she kept
cows during WWII and traded home made butter (not really black market) for
other stuff that was in short supply.

| >> That is also the case for the single computer connected 'always on'
| >> facing the internet on a cable modem which is not networked to the
| >> laptop.  The address translation of the NAT device is a very powerful
| >> feature aiding in the security of the box compared to just the
| >> software personal 'firewall'.
| >
| > What do you recommend in this regard.
|
| Well, I'm not a serious firewaller like the dudes in
| comp.security.firewalls -- they nitpick the deficiencies of the weak NAT
| devices and talk about how to get a good deal and install 3rd party
| firmware to some mass market device and all that.  The NAT device I
| bought was on sale at Fry's. :-)
|
| > BTW there is no such thing as 'ALWAYS ON' as this lady is a product
| > of the Depression and waste nothing.
|
| Well, the cable modem folks would kinda like to be able to update cable
| modem firmware in the wee hours of the morning whenever they feel like
| it and they rather prefer that the cable modem be on all the time.
| Their suggestion is that if the cable modem owner doesn't feel
| comfortable with the 'exposure' that they should push the standby button
| if they have one - which effectively disconnects the modem from the
| computer while leaving the modem in the cableco's network and accessible
| to updating.

In that regard I've managed to hide the cable modem where she does not
notice that it's on 24/7 but not for the benifit of the cable company just
that I don't want to have to deal with the inevatable resets required from
on/off cycling.
|
| > As example she will often gift
| > us with homemade preserves etc (did I mention she is a terrific
| > scratch cook?) but if I don't bring back the Kerr Jars in a timely
| > fashion I'm put on 'allocation'.
|
| I completely understand that position and support it wholeheartedly.
| What are you going to be doing with *her* Mason jars and tops after
| you're done with the goodies inside anyway? ;-)

I do as she ask (I'm also the son of depression era parents/grandparents)
but mention that only by way of explanation.