Re: [fw-wiz] You'll never get fired for recommending IBM - sorry - Microsoft

From: Adam Shostack (adam_at_homeport.org)
Date: 12/17/03

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    To: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@ranum.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:26:43 -0500

    On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:44:43PM -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
    | about an analogy! :) The whole point is that we already have a rich
    | enough vocabulary in computer security that we don't need to make up
    | loaded analogies. The paper I gave the URL for earlier has some specific
    | comments in which I attempt to demonstrate how the analogy is
    | invalid - so I'll avoid them here.

    Do you mean terms like "firewall" and "bastion host?" Or perhaps you
    mean "containment" and "belt-and-suspenders?"

    ;) 

    -- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume
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