Re: Most Popular Hardware Firewalls?

Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:
Spender wrote:

On 27 Feb 2006 08:49:39 +0100, Volker Birk <bumens@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Spender <Spender@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did you ever notice that the kids are clever and simply circumvent your
measures?

Maybe you watch too much television. Have you talked to any teenagers
recently? Most are incredibly ignorant.

"Download H4X0R tool. *klick* *klick*"

Most all of which are quickly addressed in the form of system patches. That
is if the little dweebs can even figure out how to use them. Usually the
only thing they accomplish is to notify the system admin that there have
been hack attempts, and point directly at the little runt who tried it.


It's not about modifying the system, but just circumventing the filtering.

Which is impossible to do without the root password to the firewall. Other than unplugging the firewall and plugging the PC in directly. But one would assume the firewall is in a place wherte it can't be accessed by the folks it is filtering for.
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