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Re: Personal Firewall Day?
From: George Capehart <capegeo () opengroup org>
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:55:04 -0400
On Saturday 04 October 2003 06:15 am, Charles Miller wrote: <snip>
Interesting timing: 'To combat the problems with patch management, however, the company [Microsoft] is moving to a "securing the perimeter" strategy where it will partner with various firewall companies to ensure that electronic attacks don't even reach their intended targets but are instead thwarted at the edge of the network, or what network specialists call the perimeter. Microsoft's security shift was first revealed in mid-September when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during a speech that the company was working on "shield technology." In the speech, he said, "the most important technology area we are focused on is shield technology. We know bad guys keep writing viruses. The goal is to block them before they get on PCs."'
" (6) It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving the problem to a different part of the overall network architecture) than it is to solve it. (6a) (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of indirection." RFC 1925 Cheers, George Capehart -- George Capehart capegeo at opengroup dot org PGP Key ID: 0x63F0F642 http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: BE7A 9A4A 6A8F 363A BAC5 4866 631B B2F6 63F0 F642 "It is always possible to agglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea. -- RFC 1925 _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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