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Plumbers... was Re: Sources for Extranet Designs?
From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () jmu edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:21:14 -0500
Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
Frederick M Avolio wrote:No. He said, "Security is like onions, it makes your eyes burn and leaves you burping."Actually, the Onion remark was one of Steve Bellovin's. ;) *MINE* was at SANS in 1997 in Baltimore: "I guess we should all just quit doing security and become plumbers. No. Wait. Security *IS* like being a plumber!! You still have to worry about the flow of stuff and the thickness of your pipes. You have no control over the stuff you're going to have to deal with, and it all stinks about equally. Marketing people put whatever stuff they like into your pipes, and when the pipes burst you're still left to clean the stuff up and your customers are going to blame you for what they flushed."
That is a start but that is just the network administration part of the job. Security folks also contend with determining who is sitting on the pot when the sitter really wants privacy, whether they're allowed to sit on the pot when they "really gotta go now", whether the pot is safe to sit on when the pots are bought out of a glossy catalog, what can be put in the pot without tromping on someone's special needs, whether they wash their hands after sitting on the pot without becoming Big Brother, handling complaints from other folks who really did not want what was put in the pot, and trying to make sure that what was put in the pot was what they intended to put in the pot (or, God forbid, what they took out of the pot) without limiting innovation I know. Its late. :). _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
Current thread:
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs?, (continued)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Daniel Linder (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Paul Robertson (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Marcus J. Ranum (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Marcus J. Ranum (Feb 23)
- Re: Sources for Extranet Designs? Dragos Ruiu (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Daniel Linder (Feb 23)
- Re: Sources for Extranet Designs? George Capehart (Feb 24)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Baumann, Sean C. (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Wes Noonan (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Frederick M Avolio (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Marcus J. Ranum (Feb 23)
- Plumbers... was Re: Sources for Extranet Designs? Gary Flynn (Feb 24)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Wes Noonan (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Marcus J. Ranum (Feb 23)
- RE: Sources for Extranet Designs? Chris Blask (Feb 24)
- RE: IPS (was: Sources for Extranet Designs?) Ben Nagy (Feb 26)
- RE: IPS (was: Sources for Extranet Designs?) Christian Kreibich (Feb 26)
- RE: IPS (was: Sources for Extranet Designs?) Chris Blask (Feb 26)