Re: Most secure firewall software??

From: SL (sl_at_sjlhs.suffolk.sch.uk)
Date: 06/24/03 

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:36:25 +0100

Thanks Mailman for your thoughts, very helpfull :) I am currently playing
around with Tiny Personal Firewall 4.5. It a scary thought really, that we
are never safe. But i guess that is the same in most cases on life.

I am very interested in security technologies. And i think im going to try
and learn alot more in my spare time :)

SL

Mailman <mailman@anonymous.org> wrote in message
news:3ef842e7_5@corp.newsgroups.com...
> SL wrote:
>
> > If you followed this group for a while you have probably noticed that
> > there
> >> are a few posters who do advertising for their own products or bash the
> >> competitors' on a constant basis.
> >
> > Only been on here a day and i had noticed that. I know a little bit
about
> > security, just wanted to know which products were out there in a short
> > space of time, so i thought the best way to find out was to ask a simple
> > question like that.
>
> Google is your friend. If you don't feel like it you should probably be
> more specific (what OS, what environment, how much you know, etc.) to get
> some meaningful answers.
>
>
> > What i always find a funny thing, is how do u know how secure u really
> > are?
>
> You don't. You may have some vague hope of being OK.
>
> > if you dont know how to find ways into a machine. I mean, i could run a
> > firewall and think im the safest person on the net, only because i didnt
> > know how an attact would happen. So how do we find out how secure we
> > really are? Sorry if that is a bit of a n00b question.
>
> If you ever think you are secure you are not. Approaching security without
> a healthy dose of paranoia is not a good idea and a (false) sense of
> security is even worse than no security at all.
>
> In general there are no provably secure systems - the exceptions are few
> and far between. This is more a problem of engineering (effort invested
> against expected benefit) rather than mathematics (I have a proof that
> holds in all possible worlds).
> --
> Mailman
>
>
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