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On 2025-08-06 03:32, John McCue wrote:
> jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> wrote:
>> I say it depends on the situation. For a home user, no. Unless you
>> open something there's nothing listening there to exploit.
> 
> Yes and no :)  If you are on a Laptop and travel, you may
> want a firewall even if all ports are closed.  I think
> at the very least you should restrict your system from
> reacting to pings (see below).  FWIW, I always have a
> iptables firewall active.
> 
> <snip>

I don't trust my router, provided by the ISP. Thus all my computers have 
a firewall up.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.