RE: [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert J. Liebsch [mailto:rliebsch () stoneyamashita com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 6:45 PM
> To: Michael Reilly; Schmehl, Paul L; Kurt Seifried
> Cc: Ben Tyson-Norrman; full-disclosure () lists netsys com
> Subject: RE: [Full-disclosure] [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm
>
>
> I have on asbestos underwear, so I am prepared for your flames...  
You should be, since you're using HTML email. :-)
> However, Because security is inconvenient does not make it 
> irrelevant. You do have your car serviced? You do go see a 
> doctor regularly? You do perform maintenance to your home?
>   ....don't you? 

Yes, but I don't expect my 20 year old daughter to jump in my Ferrari
and drive it safely either.  She drives the Honda Civic, and after she's
got some experience under her belt and has gone to driving school *then*
I'll consider giving her the keys to the Ferrari.

I'd rather have an inexperienced user behind a PFW any day than expect
them to understand and *properly* implement NAT *and* a firewall.  I'd
rather have them introduced to the concept of security in a way that
they understand than to shove it down their throats with technology they
don't comprehend and can't possibly use correctly.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/

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