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Well the art of security is to get the balance between usability and security. These days the easiest way in is through the human element; "There's no patch for human stupidity." A firewall is just one layer of security and often just gives a false sense of security. Admittedly it is a lot harder to penetrate a home user's PC (whos kept up to date with patches etc) than a larger network such as an enterprise or education institute. Home users don't need to offer any services to the outside world such as email, web pages etc. Where as say, the server this site is hosted on, it needs to serve the site or its not doing its job, therefore it has a larger attack surface. Maybe im just ranting lol.