I'm now a better geek than I was yesterday. I've started reading Secrets & Lies, and it finally made me feel guilty enough to overcome my innate laziness enough to mess with ipfw. Granted, I used Google and don't fully understand the ipfw config script I'm now using, but I do have a better firewall than the one built in to OS 10.2. And more importantly, I understand a lot of it, and how it's actually invoked and built. As a fun bonus, now I log denied requests, so I can see anyone crazy enough to try to attack a machine with a dial-in IP that lasts at most an hour.
But most important of all, I won't feel like such a weenie when people talk about their firewalls. And I'll be safe from... uh... all those OS X exploits you hear abo-
Well that's cool. As I write this, another CWRU dial-up user scanned me for Windows file shares (port 137). Not exactly earth-shattering, but I feel that much more aware of what the heck is going on around me.
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