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RE: "firewalls are obsolete" rant
From: jseymour () linxnet com (Jim Seymour)
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:09:27 -0500 (EST)
"Hawkins, Michael" <MHawkins () TULLIB COM> wrote:
Now here's a rant http://patrioticduo.blogspot.com/
[snip] "Partitioning is coming?" On my network it's already here--in a wy. Coincidentally, just yesterday afternoon an end-user got himself blackholed on one of the firewalls for tripping over a simple IDS that didn't like him poking at port 6667. Turns out he wanted to see if he could IRC from the $work network. Then he tried to talk me into allowing him to do so. "Absolutely not," says I, "not using that electronic petri dish you call an ``operating system.''" Then he suggested I could limit him to using a text-based IRC client. "How am I going to accomplish that," I asked, "being as you have administrator access to your machine?" He actually has what sounds like a reasonable, work-related reason for wanting to access a technically-related IRC network/channel. I told him if he wanted to use a Unix/Linux client approved by I.T., we could discuss it. But no client/desktop systems, particularly those from a Certain Large Software Company, and *certainly* no client/desktop systems over which the end-user has admin rights. I wonder if there's a *good* IRC proxy out there that will block DCC for me...? Jim _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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- RE: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Hawkins, Michael (Jan 25)
- RE: "firewalls are obsolete" rant Jim Seymour (Jan 27)