Re: How to Secure Windows? was How to Save the World

[Barney Wolff <barney () databus com>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:06:19AM -0500, Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Barney Wolff wrote:
>
> > > That _would_ be useful, if it weren't for the fact that I can only use it
> > > on a single computer.  If, I wanted to use their tools as a consultant,
> > > it'd cost me $11,000 per year!  While that might be ok for E&Y, it's a
> > > little steep for PDR ;)
> >
> > ISTR something similar regarding fwtk, back in the paleozoic.
> > Presumably your clients can each download and install, themselves,
> > without your fingers ever touching a keyboard.
>
> That's a fine line to tread though- if they think it's worth $11,000 to
> consultants, then I'll respect that- it's not worth that much to me.

While it was clearly unethical (and unlawful) to charge clients for
installing fwtk, I did not consider it unethical to advise them to
do so, where there were sysadmins perfectly capable of doing it for
themselves.  I did not mean that I stood next to them while they
did it, which I agree would have been weaseling.

A decade later, that code is still running.

Barney

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