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> On 14 Jun 2001, at 16:44, Zachary Uram wrote:
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> wow $12,000 for a single firewall?!
> i didn't realize network security devices were so costly
> maybe that's why many business/organizations have neglected
> security?
> are routers and other network devices similiarly expensive?
What we've come to know as the "Internet", all the protocols that make it
happen under the hood, so that applications do the little things they do
for us, dancing to our finger-tips and clicks of mices and such, was not
designed with security in mind, the focus back then was to get something
to work, and to work in a semi fault tolerant way. It's pretty much the
same focus most programmers have when putting tools and toys together
before slapping then down on floppies and CD's for our mail order biz.
This means that most all the security tools and trinkets used today, and
many of the bugs fixed in the code of old, are afterthoughts, shims and
wedges fitted into the puzzle of the Internet and intranets attached to
it. Remodling is dirty work, and costly. Folks tend to fudge when it
means that something that they have gotten used to, that seems to have
functioned adequetly over the years, is going to be changed and updated,
perhaps even making those persons have to add keystrokes to the simple
commands and login practices they have become accustomed to. Of course
there are those folks, that no matter how much you try to warn them that
they are facing a long walk through deep shit, are going to end up with
crappy boots. And of course a good set of boots are not all that cheap.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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