Re: Botnets, IRC servers and firewalls?

[Marcus J Ranum <mjr () ranum com>]

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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