[146395] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (-Hammer-)
Thu Nov 10 13:14:47 2011
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:12:21 -0600
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20111110181219.GA26841@gsp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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:
>
>> OK. Right off the bat you know I can't and won't.
>>
> 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
>
>
