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<blockquote data-quote="Victor M" data-source="post: 1121204" data-attributes="member: 96560"><p>Thanks for pointing that out. Forgot the basics a long time ago, because I have never set my firewall network profile to Private. I just know to open the ports I need when absolutely necessary. And Windows doesn't prompt you to choose the network profile upon install finish anymore.</p><p></p><p>By the way, there are enabled firewall rules for Network Discovery in the public profile. And SSDP is active, doesn't seem to matter whether you are using the public profile. I guess discovery type of things don't matter much if it doesn't automatically connect. Maybe they don't reach out and touch someone, but what if an attacker touches you? Are those things secure: have authentication, and have strong input validation? I have learned the lesson ( from god knows where) that any sort of input is potentially abuse-able.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Victor M, post: 1121204, member: 96560"] Thanks for pointing that out. Forgot the basics a long time ago, because I have never set my firewall network profile to Private. I just know to open the ports I need when absolutely necessary. And Windows doesn't prompt you to choose the network profile upon install finish anymore. By the way, there are enabled firewall rules for Network Discovery in the public profile. And SSDP is active, doesn't seem to matter whether you are using the public profile. I guess discovery type of things don't matter much if it doesn't automatically connect. Maybe they don't reach out and touch someone, but what if an attacker touches you? Are those things secure: have authentication, and have strong input validation? I have learned the lesson ( from god knows where) that any sort of input is potentially abuse-able. [/QUOTE]
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