Very late response; I've been idling on my fw@gnac reading
for the past couple of months (got 3500 unread posts now).
This post just came to my attention by way of a friend
(well, more than one, in fact), and I must say that I find
it hilariously amusing to see an employee of a respectable
multinational firewall vendor slander another vendor, by
way of unfounded speculation and FUD in this manner.
And, well, shoot me, but I just can't let these
allegations go by unchallenged.
(More below...)
On December 4th, 2000, Brian Ford spake thusly:
>
> [about EnterNet Technologies and EnterNet FireWall]
>
> Their price may be realistic given what they provide.
> What about support? I suppose they have someone who regularly
> answers e-mail. Maybe a local phone number? Maybe a FAQ?
>
> That's good. They "dig up vulnerabilities". But do they
> solve customers problems?
If you'd done your homework, you'd know that the
answer is, simply put, "yes", but since we haven't
targeted the US market at all so far, I guess it's
understandable.
Actually, we've even been helping to solve the problems
of _your_ customers, as your developers called me to
discuss the FTP active mode vulnerabilities from last
year (which, by the way, you haven't completely solved
yet, I might add). I happily contributed my two cents,
and will again if/when I or anyone else at EnterNet find
something else alarming that concerns products from you
and/or other vendors.
After all, finding a vulnerability is one thing.
Slandering a competitor because of it, or making unfair
use of knowledge of said vulnerability is quite another.
So, to sum this up, I hope we can stay away from the
public mud slinging / pissing contest in the future. Should
you feel compelled to discuss this further, you are very
welcome to do so in private e-mail. And, I promise, should
you somehow manage to convince me that we stink as bad as
you made it out to look in your post, I will make public
recompense and withdraw to a life of growing spuds, or
somesuch.
Regards,
Mikael Olsson
(Back to idling. I guess I'll find time to read
all these fw@gnac posts _some_ day soon.)
--
Mikael Olsson, EnterNet Technologies
Storgatan 12, Box 393, SE-891 28 ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK
Phone: +46 (0)660 29 92 00 Mobile: +46 (0)70 66 77 636
Fax: +46 (0)660 122 50 WWW: http://www.enternet.net
On bosses and technology: "There are bosses who don't know, and there
are bosses who don't know that they don't know" /Anonymous techie
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