Re: Personal Firewall Day?

[George Capehart <capegeo () opengroup org>]

On Saturday 04 October 2003 06:15 am, Charles Miller wrote:

<snip>

> Interesting timing:
>
> 'To combat the problems with patch management, however, the company
> [Microsoft] is moving to a "securing the perimeter" strategy where it
> will partner with various firewall companies to ensure that
> electronic attacks don't even reach their intended targets but are
> instead thwarted at the edge of the network, or what network
> specialists call the perimeter.  Microsoft's security shift was first
> revealed in mid-September when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said
> during a speech that the company was working on "shield technology."
> In the speech, he said, "the most important technology area we are
> focused on is shield technology. We know bad guys keep writing
> viruses. The goal is to block them before they get on PCs."'

" (6)  It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving
        the problem to a different part of the overall network
        architecture) than it is to solve it.

        (6a) (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of
             indirection."

RFC 1925

Cheers,

George Capehart
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"It is always possible to agglutenate multiple separate problems into a
 single complex interdependent solution.  In most cases this is a bad
 idea.  -- RFC 1925

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