RE: Re: Snort-users digest, Vol 1 #2729 - 10 msgs

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

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Stein B. Sylvarnes [mailto:stein.sylvarnes () student uib no] 
> Sent: Wed 1/29/2003 8:34 PM 
> To: Marc Quibell 
> Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net 
> Subject: [Snort-users] Re: Snort-users digest, Vol 1 #2729 - 10 msgs

> PGP is OK, only outlook and outlook express have problems with pgp/mime,
> so they don't add too much noise.  People security-consious enough to
> run snort won't use those MUAs anyway.

I *love* the assumptions people make about how *somebody else* should "do" security.   At any given moment you may find 
me responding to a list message with Pine, Mutt, Evolution, Mulberry (on Windows, Mac *or* Linux), Outlook, Outlook 
Express and {{gasp}} Outlook Web Access, as I'm doing now.  Yet I'm *extremely* security minded, as anyone who knows me 
can testify.

I am comfortable running any form of Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc., yet I'm an expert in Windows and pretty 
good with a Mac too.  I admin a commercial IDS, will be setting up snort on FreeBSD tomorrow, and I'm competent in 
setting up ipfw, ipchains, iptables, etc.

I'm sending HTML email to the list because *right now* I have no choice (and I *despise* HTML email and I *hate* the 
way OWA formats the text.)  I might even have to send mail to the list one day using my Blackberry-based text pager.

So what box will you put me in?

Let me humbly suggest to you that security minded people come in all shapes and sizes, aren't limited to the choices 
that *you* may think are "right" and may well be much more competent than you are to speak on the subject.   *Never* 
assume you know all rhe right answers.  It makes you look arrogant.


Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu <mailto:pauls () utdallas edu> )

Adjunct Information Security Officer

The University of Texas at Dallas

AVIEN Foudning Member