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Re: Killing Napster and beyond...
From: Brad Van Orden <Brad.VanOrden () navius com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 07:19:10 -0400
Vern Paxson wrote:
Firewalls are to protect you from those Bozos that are not under your control.Some of these are your own bozos [tm]. I.e., you don't want to trust your internal users to keep their machines secure, run only particular services, etc. (Or to stick with your use policies.) My point being that I think the "technology can't solve social problems" mantra, while very catchy, is misleading. There's a whole subset of social problems that technology can indeed help with / solve. One piece of this is user education. For example, blocking your users' access to certain sites, while circumventable if they want to put enough effort into it, reminds them that such access violates your policies. This can help a whole lot in a large site over which you don't have much direct control. Vern
I don't disagree, I am just trying to point out that sometimes the people we have to educate are the managers. That is, yes we can block some ports on the firewall, but that is not a guarantee that an internal user won't find a way around it. The manager needs to understand that it is his job to control the activities of his people and that he just can't tell the firewall manager to block some ports and think that is the end of it. The manager needs to spend some time educating his people about what is acceptable use of Internet access and what isn't. Regards, Brad Van Orden Navius Technologies _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: Killing Napster and beyond..., (continued)
- Re: Killing Napster and beyond... John McDermott (Oct 20)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... Zarcone, Christopher (Oct 19)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... Barry Dykes (Oct 20)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... David O'Shea (Oct 20)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... Henry Sieff (Oct 19)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... Dave Costello (Oct 20)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... Harris, Tim (Oct 20)
- RE: Reducing Napster and beyond... Jonn Martell (Oct 23)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... Delmer Harris (Oct 20)
- Re: Killing Napster and beyond... Vern Paxson (Oct 20)
- Re: Killing Napster and beyond... Brad Van Orden (Oct 20)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... jcintron (Oct 23)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... agoldney (Oct 24)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... Barry Dykes (Oct 24)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... agoldney (Oct 24)
- RE: Killing Napster and beyond... Graham, Randy (RAW) (Oct 24)