Error 403 - Primitive Security Measures on the Forum
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KOM, I am voicing my concern about this.
It's all in how you say it. You basically came in as a brand-new user and called the pfSense team a bunch of idiots, and did so in a way that displayed arrogant ignorance. Honestly, what were you expecting? If you would have but simply said "I've found this and I'm concerned. What does everyone else think or can someone help out…", it would have gotten you a load of assistance. Flies & honey and all that.
At the moment I don't feel like dealing with running an exit node so it's transit-only.
A simple filter in your config will limit everything to safe ports. When I first started out, I had it wide open and it was only a matter of days before Linode was respectfully bugging me due to reported bogies on my node. After I filtered, I haven't had a report since.
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I know. I'm just not in the mood. :) It runs fine and I'm moving enough traffic to feel I'm helping the cause enough as it is.
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Well. This was certainly a 'worthwhile' use of my time.
jonesr thanks for the input. Frankly I'm pretty put off at this point by the complete lack of any apparent knowledge or discussion of the actual technical characteristics of pfSense. They act like a Windows crowd, or a high school locker room here. I'm glad to learn that this forum is not run by the same team as pfSense though.
PS - "Derelict", correctly it is 'TOR', regardless of the capitalization on their website which it appears you go by without knowing its meaning. ("The Onion Router") ;) And although it is very impressive that you'd like to associate yourself with TOR, do not pretend you run a node. You haven't known what it's actually called up to this point.
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Note: even though it originally came from an acronym, Tor is not spelled "TOR". Only the first letter is capitalized. In fact, we can usually spot people who haven't read any of our website (and have instead learned everything they know about Tor from news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong.
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en
I guess you know more about Tor than the project maintainers themselves.
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@Quantum`:
Frankly I'm pretty put off at this point by the complete lack of any apparent knowledge or discussion of the actual technical characteristics of pfSense.
Your very first post here:
@Quantum`:Wow, I am surprised and disappointed with the elementary security measures on the pfSense forum.
This is supposed to be an advanced firewall, and yet you rely on Project Honeypot for the forum? Which blocks the TOR browser? And what's with the dumb questions at the bottom of every new post which never change? ("What is 5 + 6?" "Are you a spammer? (yes / no)" "What is 10 + 5?")
I hope the firewall isn't maintained by the same guys who run the forums. I'm not sure at this point if I want to learn the firewall, if it's by amateurs.
Entering a forum with inflammatory and demeaning accusations right from the start with your very first post is not the way to elicit a discussion. But it's a pretty effective means of picking a fight.
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:o)
We should just let the troll toddler die of starvation and keep this thread from going to three pages.
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Better yet, can someone press the lock button, please?
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Thats so primitive…
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@Quantum`:
Frankly I'm pretty put off at this point by the complete lack of any apparent knowledge or discussion of the actual technical characteristics of pfSense.
Beyond mentioning it is based on FreeBSD 10.1 and a fork of the m0n0wall project in response to your comments about Windows, and repeating there is some arms-length between the actual firewall product and the forum hosting service, it is a broad subject. You don't appear to have asked any questions regarding pfSense itself, what is it you wanted to discuss?
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Anyone else's Smite counts going through the roof lately? I've had 4 since yesterday even after I stopped responding to Quantum. I have a feeling that this Quantum guy is still having a tantrum and is coming here just to smite anyone who told him off. So childish.
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Yeah,
56 so far from the little skin flutist. -
Yep, I'm up to 17 now. Was at 11 or 12 this morning. He is literally going over every single post of ours and smiting them.
Jim, Chris or Steve, can you please do something about this guy?
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@KOM:
Anyone else's Smite counts going through the roof lately? I've had 4 since yesterday even after I stopped responding to Quantum. I have a feeling that this Quantum guy is still having a tantrum and is coming here just to smite anyone who told him off. So childish.
Yeah,
56 so far from the little skin flutist.@KOM:
Yep, I'm up to 17 now. Was at 11 or 12 this morning. He is literally going over every single post of ours and smiting them.
Jim, Chris or Steve, can you please do something about this guy?
Well maybe if you all didn't have such a need to be right all the time… ;) ...you would get along better with others and trolls. ;) Nobody likes a know-it-all. ;)
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Well maybe if you all didn't have such a need to be right all the time… ;)
Being right is why karma here goes up.
Nobody likes a know-it-all. ;)
Exactly.
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Nobody likes a know-it-all.
I don't know anything. Just ask my wife.
Oh look, I'm up to 18 now. And by wild coincidence, Quantum logged in recently.
Anyway, I'm done with this thread.
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In this life… there are the smarter ones; and then there are the dumber ones.
Just an abstract philosophical observation.
I've told the ones who matter what my plans are now for my Xen system, and what role (if any) that pfSense will play. Most of you don't want to know though.
Bye.
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@Quantum`:
In this life… there are the smarter ones; and then there are the dumber ones.
Just an abstract philosophical observation.
I've told the ones who matter what my plans are now for my Xen system, and what role (if any) that pfSense will play. Most of you don't want to know though.
Bye.
Bear in mind that there will always be smarter and dumber than you…Just an abstract philosophical observation.
F.
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@Quantum`:
I've told the ones who matter what my plans are now for my Xen system, and what role (if any) that pfSense will play. Most of you don't want to know though.
Bye.
Not if you are unable to express it without insults. Which could be a significant indicator of your place on the smarter / dumber scale.
Wow. More than 100 smites per post so far, and no applause.
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And, of course, today someone DOSed the forum.
