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RE: AIM
From: "Paul D. Robertson" <proberts () patriot net>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:17:27 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Nieveler, Juergen wrote:
This brings up an interesting problem, though: As firewall admins, we wouldn't want to give advise to (l)users trying to circumvent a firewall -
It's a finely balanced thing- as is the issue with all information conflicts. Educating the defenders also educates the attackers, and visa versa. That's one reason that I think it's _extremely_ important to point out to folks who are thinking of circumventing firewalls that they're doing so at their peril. When they then cross the line, they have no excuse for having done so.
we should, however, discuss methods of doing so to find means of preventing the circumvention. By doing this, however, we give any user who has subscribed to the list the tips he needs to circumvent firewalls administered by people who aren't reading the list.
There are firewall admins who don't read firewall-wizards? Shame on them! Way back in the past, I used to copy postmaster@ for the obvious violators, the plethora of freemail accounts makes that less effective than it once was. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions proberts () patriot net which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." probertson () trusecure com Director of Risk Assessment TruSecure Corporation _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- Re: AIM Jim Seymour (Oct 01)
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- Re: AIM Christopher Hicks (Oct 01)
- Re: AIM Paul D. Robertson (Oct 01)
- RE: AIM Noonan, Wesley (Oct 01)
- RE: AIM Nieveler, Juergen (Oct 01)
- RE: AIM Paul D. Robertson (Oct 01)
- RE: AIM Stiennon,Richard (Oct 01)
- RE: AIM Jim Seymour (Oct 01)
- RE: AIM Bill Olah (Oct 02)
- Remote access problem James X (Oct 03)
- RE: AIM kaptain (Oct 03)
- RE: AIM Paul D. Robertson (Oct 03)