Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls?

[Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr <gwen () reptiles org>]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, M. Dodge Mumford wrote:
> While the IRC traffic you mention may or may not be increasing[1], the
> underlying problem you identify is not new. Firewall administration has
> become so simple that many refuse to think about it. It's just the bad evil
> people on the outside that holds administrator's attention.. Little
> contingency is made for what happens when[2] someone gets in.

Avi did an interesting presentation based on his work at Lumeta on a
configuration parser, talking about the number of misconfigurations
they'd found in the average Firewall-1 installation.

It certainly speaks to your point that many people aren't actually
doing what they think they are with their firewalls.

cheers!
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