Re[4]: FW-1: Questions about DHCP and IPX

[ken_stephens () em fcnbd com]

     I share the same hope.  
     
     My main point was that we are all paid to do our work and not disclose 
     what our common sense and our managers "think" should remain 
     confidential.
     
     The appearance (or illusion) of good judgment is central to any 
     clearance or background check.  To lose your clearance and/or your job 
     because you said something in the heat of an argument on a mailing 
     list is a career event that is easily avoided.  What MIL unit and type 
     of firewall they had installed was never an important fact in the 
     discussion of how bad, good or widely used FW-1 is.
     
     
     Sidebar:   Does anyone know how many lines of code currently in FW-1?  
     Like the number of lines of code in NT 5.0 the question is an exercise 
     in trivial facts unless you study risk assessment by exponential code 
     growth. 
     
     
     Ken Stephens
     Network Security, FCNBD                    ken_stephens () em fcnbd com
     
     This statement is my own and does not reflect the opinion of my 
     employer!
     


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> >     I would seriously question whether the C.O. of the 88th would be happy 
> >     with your disclosure of what they use for a firewall.  You may have 
> >     kissed whatever clearance you had good-bye making that public 
> >      statement.  Let's be a little careful out here folks.
     
> One would hope that people are being, however slowly, educated out of 
> the obsolete "security through obscurity" model.
>
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