Anit-Virus help for all of us??????
Sean M.Doran
smd at cesium.clock.org
Tue Nov 25 17:20:26 UTC 2003
On 24 Nov, 2003, at 21:20, Gerardo Gregory wrote:
> [NAT and PAT] is not a security feature, neither does it provide any
> real security, just ... translations.
"You can't curse it if you don't know its name" -- Len Bosack on this
issue, Reykjavik, March 2003.
> Just cause your broadband router (ahem, switch) vendor states that NAT
> (in reality PAT) as one of their security 'knobs' does not make it in
> any way a security feature when implemented.
Oh drat. So much for Len.
Sean.
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