Sorry if my previous post wasn’t clear. When I say that an unfirewalled Radio installation will get hacked, I don’t mean that Radio has security holes that will cause you to get hacked. It’s the computer that is running Radio, specifically the operating system, that has such holes. A default Windows 98 installation with a cable modem (or other always-on connection), visible on the Internet as a “full peer” (i.e. not firewalled or otherwise protected), will be found and hacked within minutes by automated script-kiddie-level scans. Not because it’s running a server of any kind, but because Windows clients are by default so insecure that they should never be visible on the public Internet.
The advantage of running your weblogging software (like Movable Type, or Greymatter, or Manila) on a server (like Cornerhost or Weblogger) is that the server is presumably professionally managed and running an operating system that is designed to withstand the public internet. It’s rough out there, rougher than you realize. Protect yourself.
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