Re: defeating firewalls made easy

lol . . well i thought we were havin some fun here . . .

anyway what initially appeared to be a software issue apparently turns out
to be a people issue. but the problem does not lessen simply because human
fault defeats the firewall as opposed to software fault.

the perfect firewall exists, aka the scissors to the internet and network
connection wire.

but if the purpose of the internet = liberal exchange of information, then

if the customer and the contractor (service or goods supplier) cannot
exchange such information via e-mail attachment; and

if the customer and the contractor cannot advertise each other's products
with cd-roms,

then perhaps the fax machine and pencil and paper resumes its prior import;
and the firewall goes by the way of the buggy whip, save for a select few
individuals willing to invest large amounts of time and money to develop
firewalls that block much of the information business needs to prosper.

and as for microsoft . . . . even assuming all of the criticism against the
dominant player is correct, the average computer consumer, including
business, appears unwilling to abandon microsoft products. And when a
business is trying to attract customers, insisting that the prospective
customer redesign its computer platforms to accomodate the security
conscious seller of goods and services, that sounds like a recipe for lost
customers.

to me anyhow, the big ticket issue is not whether the generally
sophisticated participants on this bulletin board can author and // or use a
robust firewall, but rather whether the average and unsophisticated
consumers of computers can exchange documents via e-mail attachment; and can
advertise with each other via cd-rom, without having the company or the
individual computer user's propietary and financial data immediately placed
at risk of loss.

imho, the future of firewalls lies not so much with expert usage, but rather
whether a user friendly security suite of products can be assembled that
allows the liberal and safe electronic exchange of information aka e-mail
attachments.
Received on Thu Sep 29 19:53:27 2005