Re: Killing Napster and beyond...

[Vern Paxson <vern () ee lbl gov>]

> 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

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