RE: Flawed arguments (Was all that other crap about PFW day)

["Erik van Straten" <emvs.fd.3FB4D11C () cpo tn tudelft nl>]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:38:49 -0600 Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Friday, January 16, 2004 4:14 AM +0100 Erik van Straten
> <emvs.fd.3FB4D11C () cpo tn tudelft nl> wrote:

[snip]

> > Nope. It translates to not needing simple PFW's -for ingress traffic-
> > if there are no listening ports. Flaws shouldn't have been there in the
> > first place, and any found should be fixed ASAP%001.
> Well, hell, let's ban iptables, ipfw, pf, ipchains, et. al. from
> "workstation" installs of *nix.  After all, *nix is secure out of the box,
> right?  And PFW's just give people a false sense of security anyway, right?

[snip]

> > With ABS you can drive much closer to the car in
> > front of you. With AV and a PFW people tend to believe it is safe to
> > run any exe (or hta). Marketing helps making people believe this.
> I have to agree with you here.  It's been made obvious to me by the posts
> today in this thread.

Explain this contradiction in your rant and we may talk

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