--On Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:00:56 +0300 Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I think filters/firewalls are useful. I believe every computer should >>> have one. > Firewalls are a patch to broken network application architechture. If > your applications would have been properly designed, you would not have > the need for firewalls. They are for perimeter defence only anyway. The important wording here is "every computer should have one"; indicating that it is the host that protects itself. This said, I do agree that properly written operating systems not even need this. One free Unix-clone I happen to run manages to reach this level of properness; so it is definitely possible. -- Måns Nilsson Systems Specialist +46 70 681 7204 KTHNOC MN1334-RIPE We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.
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