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Firewall Wizards: Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls?

Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls?

From: Marcus J Ranum <mjr_at_ranum.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 21:35:18 -0500

Mordechai T. Abzug wrote:
>That said, IMHO, you should be grateful for all the sites that allow
>all outbound. Firewalling is an arms race.

No. Firewalling is only an arms race if you want to have a high
degree of connectivity and want to believe that your firewall
is actually doing something. Security == C / connectivity, where
C is an unknown but small constant.

mjr.

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