Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?

Thu Nov 10 18:12:21 UTC 2011

WOW. You really are naive....

-Hammer-

"I was a normal American nerd"
-Jack Herer

On 11/10/2011 12:12 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:39:29AM -0600, -Hammer- wrote:
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>> OK. Right off the bat you know I can't and won't.
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> Right.  I know you can't and won't.   I can't either.  So we can
> summarily dismiss all the concerns about liability because they
> have no relationship to reality.  You will not be suing BigFirewallCo,
> no matter how horribly their product fails, no matter how bad the damage is,
> no matter how obvious to all of us the failure is, no matter how culpable
> we might all agree they are, because (a) your pockets aren't as deep
> as BigFirewallCo's, and (b) you'd probably lose anyway (c) after 11 years
> and a lot of billable hours for everyone's attorneys.  (s/you/I/ and
> everyone else, unless we happen to work for a Fortune 50 company...and
> probably not even then.)
>
> When it comes to security, I think it's better to rely on software
> engineering than litigation.
>
> ---rsk
>
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