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Local network messaging using AppleScript
Authored by: ssevenup on Feb 15, '05 11:38:02AM
Just to be secure: make sure your network security settings won't allow events from unknown IP numbers, and turn on the Firewall.
This hint should really expand on what is involved in this last advice. Achieving the level of security suggested will require editing some files in /etc and probably a third party firewall (or at least overriding the simplistic level of security the GUI provides).

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Local network messaging using AppleScript
Authored by: adrianm on Feb 15, '05 12:06:07PM

And putting a password in the script is not a particularly good idea.



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Enabling and customizing OS X Firewall
Authored by: msk on Feb 16, '05 08:54:06AM

Enabling and customizing the OS X Firewall has been covered to death elsewhere.

For anyone who does not wish to create a startup item to enable a customized firewall, there are programs like Brickhouse which configure the firewall built into OS X, very likely some of those programs are free.



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