RE: [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm

["Stephan Steenkamp" <ssteenkamp () aosl co za>]

Hey I resent that.. 
" Do you honestly expect the six million in Africa to all go out and buy
routers?"
I love in south africa and we propably have better equipment than u will
ever have :P

Regards S


-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:smcmahon () eiv com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 3:27 PM
To: full-disclosure () lists netsys com

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:07:45AM -0400, JT said:
> I don't quite understand here. A user generally has WAY more 
> options/ways to make a mistake interacting with Zone Alarm vs say, a 
> Linksys firewall. Yes, the user will not know how to flash it, and 
> will not stay up to date with any updates, but that's our job anyways.

> IMHO any auto update feature is a

There are over 600 million people worldwide who are on the Internet in
one way or another.  Care to guess how many of those don't have a system
administrator maintaining their systems?

And before you say something like "well, they deserve what they get",
remember that if less than 1 tenth of 1 percent of them are compromised,
it can effectively bring the entire Internet to a crawl for all of us.

Do you honestly expect the six million in Africa to all go out and buy
routers?


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