[60474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Aug 13 04:03:24 2003
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:00:56 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Mans Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030813073122.GC61550@sunet.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Mans Nilsson wrote:
>Subject: Re: Port blocking last resort in fight against virus Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:42:38PM -0400 Quoting Sean Donelan (sean@donelan.com):
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>>I think filters/firewalls are useful. I believe every computer should
>>have one. I have several. I just disagree on who should control the
>>filters.
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>Bingo!
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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.
Pete
