RE: [fw-wiz] Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers

From: Ionut Boldizsar (ionut_at_provision.ro)
Date: 07/24/05

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    To: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@ranum.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:28:22 +0300

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: firewall-wizards-admin@honor.icsalabs.com
    > [mailto:firewall-wizards-admin@honor.icsalabs.com] On Behalf
    > Of Marcus J. Ranum
    > Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:06 AM
    > To: David Lang; Emily Conrad
    > Cc: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
    > Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Intel vs. special purpose FW-1 servers
    >
     
    > With technology today I recommend (in general) never buying
    > maintenance and expecting to turn a product over ever year or
    > 2 - or keep it indefinitely as long as it works. I tend to do
    > scorched-earth hard disk upgrades every
    > 2 years (yay, digital photography) but I am still using
    > Office '95 and it runs just great on my 2Ghz machine.
    >
    > So, yes, think about the future - but think about it from the
    > standpoint of "most of this stuff DOESN'T HAVE A FUTURE."
    >
    > mjr.

    This is all great, but I hope you are mainly referring to hardware
    equipments and office suites, otherwise you just put 80 % of us out of
    business (both vendors and practitioners) :)
    I somehow believe that security related software should be
    update/maintained as much as possible. Mainly because anyhow this is all
    reactive, thus two-steps behind the real threat.
    You might be using Office 95, and do a great job with it, but I doubt
    you're still using a '95 antivirus on that PC, right? :)

    And still, your last phrase is pure truth: most of this stuff really has
    no future.

    //ionut
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