Re: [fw-wiz] How to Save The World (was: Antivirus vendor conspiracy theories)

From: Chris Pugrud (cpugrud_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/13/04

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    To: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@ranum.com>, Devdas Bhagat <devdas@dvb.homelinux.org>, firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:47:12 -0800 (PST)

    --- "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@ranum.com> wrote:
    > "You must install a proxy firewall this week;
    > the moon is in the 3rd house and the
    > router is ascendant. That means that since
    > our T1 goes north-south we need to
    > sacrifice 3 black roosters to keep the
    > hackers out."

    Don't go discounting the positive aspects of the sacrifice of small woodland
    game animals in maintaining the sanctity, health, and performance of
    operational systems. I can't count the number of customer issues that have
    been solved simply by the laying of hands on keyboards. Poke around a bit,
    push a few buttons, and everything just starts working again. I'm usually
    honest with the customer as to the nature of the fix and let them know that all
    I did was sacrifice a few squirrels in the back alley and maybe they should be
    digging deeper into their application to find the root cause of the instability
    (or propose that I do so).

    Chris
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