Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause

From: Tobias Weisserth (tobias_at_weisserth.de)
Date: 01/15/04

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    Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 21:53:02 +0100
    
    

    Hi Ron,

    Am Don, den 15.01.2004 schrieb Ron DuFresne um 18:33:
    > It seems all the sec experts here complaining about this initiative value
    > their time far to much to donate it to those about them that might benefit
    > from theit skills, advice, and a few helpful mouse clicks?

    Actually I fail to see why _I_ have to pay with my valuable free time
    for the rotten software other people sell and get rich of.

    They sold the products so they should support their customers.
    Especially MS which is claiming that the Open Source community can't
    supply the kind of support that MS can supply. Now MS is begging for the
    support of the community TO DO THEIR WORK. This is pathetic.

    I'd rather take the time to _REPLACE_ any operating system that needs
    the additional investment of a personal firewall for anybody I
    personally know with a secure by design system that doesn't come with
    all doors open and doesn't require to update three different levels of
    security (OS, virus scanner and firewall).

    cheers,
    Tobias W.

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