[178070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mel Beckman)
Fri Feb 13 20:13:51 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 01:11:00 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20150213212711.GA16425@gsp.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Of course it is. You say that like faith is a bad thing.=20
The illogic of claiming to have no faith in anything is this: it's impracti=
cal to assume the role of quality assurance for everything in your life.=20
The question is your faith reasonable. Ever use an elevator? Faith. Drive a=
car? Faith. Drive through a green light? Faith. Faith. Faith.=20
Show me a man who has no faith, and I'll show you a man who is paralyzed. (=
Not a sexist statement; woman seem to have few problems with Faith).=20
-mel=20
> On Feb 13, 2015, at 1:27 PM, "Rich Kulawiec" <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:45:46PM -0600, Rafael Possamai wrote:
>> I am a huge fan of FreeBSD, but for a medium/large business I'd definite=
ly
>> use a fairly well tested security appliance like Cisco's ASA.
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> Closed-source software is faith-based security.
>=20
> ---rsk
