Re: Which Firewall?

From: Wolfgang Kueter (wolfgang_at_shconnect.de)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 15:18:01 +0200

Mike wrote:

>> Simply configure your system properly and you don't need any suspisious
>> third party so called 'firewall' software.
>
> I'm sorry but that is complete bollocks.

It is not.

> The vast majority of computers
> users can hardly configure their computers to print let alone configure
> the operating system to make it secure.

The place for complaining about that is the manufacturer of the OS in
question.

> Even if they could they would be
> unable to maintain it in the correct state.

see above.
 
> Your advice is bad, wrong and downright unhelpful.

You can't secure a system by adding code. Esspecially you can't secure a
system by adding code from third party vendors if you don't have access to
the kernel sources. Mode code means more complexity, thus more
possibilities for errors.
 
> If you think your system really is secure, post your public IP address :-)

Have you ever looked into the headers of my postings?

Wolfgang 

-- 
A foreign body and a foreign mind
never welcome in the land of the blind
Peter Gabriel, Not one of us, 1980

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