Re: [edlug] Which firewall?

[William Anderson <neuro@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Henry Coles wrote:
> [m0n0wall snippage]
> No need for a hard disk, if it was ever somehow compromised there's very little an attacker could do with it, and you can just yank the power cord in and out if you feel like it.

By the plug, of course, and not the cable :)

Something still to remember is that constant power cycling isn't good for
the rest of the electronics inside a computer, just less so than the
mechanical components such as the HDD.

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