Re: [nznog] Help block out China please.

Scott Howard (scott) writes:

Connecting *anything* to unfiltered Internet in order to configure it is absolutely the wrong thing to do. Even if the config is only going to take a few minutes, it's still asking for trouble.

Conversely, connecting boxes protected only from active connection attempts doesn't buy you're talking about end user boxes. It's usually just a matter of days/weeks/months before said user downloads a trojan or similar. If you want to be certain not to get hacked, don't put it on the Internet :) P.