Re: Best Firewall

From: Shawn K. Quinn (skquinn_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 09/03/05 

Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 05:26:47 -0500

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 from Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org>
 in message <431939b2@news.uni-ulm.de>
 posted at 2005-09-03T05:50
> J. E. Durbin <slothrop@example.com.invalid> wrote:
>> Next come up with a way to convince a 79 year-old user or Joe
>> the mechanic and his wife Marge the waitress that they need to
>> spend another 50 bucks for a router and $100 - 300 + a $100/year
>> subscription fee for a mystery box that, as far as they can tell,
>> should have been part of the PC they already paid good damn money
>> for. Got an answer the average, non-techie, user will understand?

> Yes. Marge & Joe are completely right.

> Microsoft should start to deliver their software with a secure basic
> installation.

You mean the same way OpenBSD has for years?

> Windows XP SP2 is the very first step in this direction, and a long,
> long way to go.

Agreed, and Microsoft has no excuse for taking this long to finally take
security seriously.

> Say: Marge & Joe should by a Macintosh ;-)

You don't have to dump the PC to dump Windows. This is exactly why I
flame people for saying "PC" when they really mean "PC running Windows".

That said, I do trust Apple more than Microsoft, which is not really
saying much. In some ways dealing with Apple is worse, because they are
the single source for Macintosh/iMac hardware, you can't just go to a
clone shop if you think Apple charges too much. 

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