[mythtv-users] Packet sniffing consumer electronic devices
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Mon Nov 25 18:25:19 UTC 2013
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen P. Villano" <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com>
> Needless to say, if you see traffic on ports 20-25 coming from a DVD
> player or television, be it TCP or UDP, it most certainly should
> attract
> attention. I can think of no valid reason for such devices to be
> having
> FTP, SSH, telnet or SMTP sessions going on.
>
> Of course, a *really* paranoid type might set up a snort sensor, with
> customized filters.
> But, I'm just not that paranoid.
No, a *really* paranoid type will configure the firewall on their edge
router as default-deny *in both directions*.
Cheers,
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