http://inluminent.com/2003/05/08/on-letting-the-it-department-set-up-my-machine/ my comments on business, marketing, advertising, email, CAN-SPAM, selling as a profession, photography, computers and other stuff... Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://inluminent.com/2003/05/08/on-letting-the-it-department-set-up-my-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-979 Don W Strickland Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=634#comment-979 When you attach your machine to an intranet via a VPN you also extend the intranet out to your machine. Therefore your machine is now a potential gateway from the Internet into the intranet. A firewall between you and the Internet is in fact a small piece of the firewall around your intranet. When you attach your machine to an intranet via a VPN you also extend the intranet out to your machine. Therefore your machine is now a potential gateway from the Internet into the intranet. A firewall between you and the Internet is in fact a small piece of the firewall around your intranet.

]]> http://inluminent.com/2003/05/08/on-letting-the-it-department-set-up-my-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-980 Richard Soderberg Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://inluminent.com/?p=634#comment-980 Or, phrased differently, some VPN software is (mis)configured such that the public internet can still attack your machine while you're connected to the VPN -- instead of limiting inbound traffic to only VPN traffic. This means that if they successfully broke into your machine through the public net while you were connected, they could hack into the VPN through your machine. Or, phrased differently, some VPN software is (mis)configured such that the public internet can still attack your machine while you’re connected to the VPN — instead of limiting inbound traffic to only VPN traffic. This means that if they successfully broke into your machine through the public net while you were connected, they could hack into the VPN through your machine.

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