Re: Linksys firewall question

From: Skorpion (skorpion_at_newsgroups.cetro.nil)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:48:10 -0500

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CyberDroog regaled us with the following:

>
> True. The utilitarian definition of a firewall is something placed
> between
> your system and the net which provides some measure of security. But it's
> useless to argue such a thing in a firewall group. Once some people have
> seen what top of the line firewalls can do, they seem to be forever
> convinced that no simple NAT device could ever protect a home system.
>
> --
> DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing
> is, if possible, more objectionable than another.
>
> - Ambrose Bierce

Oh, I'm certain of that and never intended to do so.

It just aggravates me when I'm confronted with the fact that folks in our
industry do not apply to themselves and to their thinking the same scrutiny
and principles they apply daily to the systems they administer (or, at
least, should apply...).

- --
Skorpion [skorpion at suespammers dot org]
"Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."

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