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Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
From: Sean M.Doran <smd () cesium clock org>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:20:26 +0000
On 24 Nov, 2003, at 21:20, Gerardo Gregory wrote:
[NAT and PAT] is not a security feature, neither does it provide any real security, just ... translations.
"You can't curse it if you don't know its name" -- Len Bosack on this issue, Reykjavik, March 2003.
Just cause your broadband router (ahem, switch) vendor states that NAT (in reality PAT) as one of their security 'knobs' does not make it in any way a security feature when implemented.
Oh drat. So much for Len. Sean.
Current thread:
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us??????, (continued)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Nov 24)
- Re[2]: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Richard Welty (Nov 24)
- Re: Re[2]: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Alexei Roudnev (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Gerardo Gregory (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Scott Call (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Stephen J. Wilcox (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? William Allen Simpson (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Stephen J. Wilcox (Nov 25)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Sean M . Doran (Nov 25)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Jeff Shultz (Nov 24)
- Re: Anit-Virus help for all of us?????? Steven M. Bellovin (Nov 24)