Re: Sam Spade Says Personal Firewalls are Snake Oil

From: Tilman Schmidt (Tilman.Schmidt@ePost.de)
Date: 08/05/02 

From: Tilman Schmidt <Tilman.Schmidt@ePost.de>
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 20:29:12 +0200

"\"Crash\" Dummy" <dvader@deathstar.mil> wrote:

>>That's patently false. Every computer security textbook has a
>>definition of the term "firewall", and the software sold as "personal
>>firewalls" quite obviously doesn't satisfy it.
>
>Would you be so kind as to quote one for me, preferably one duplicated by a
>second source?

Why not start with this newsgroup's FAQ?

Quoting from Message-ID: <9a939m$1kb$1@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>:

> A firewall is a system or group of systems that enforces an access control
>policy between two networks. 

-- 
Tilman Schmidt                       E-Mail: Tilman.Schmidt@ePost.de
Bonn, Germany
- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
  In practice, there is.

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