bugtraq - Re: Microsoft urging users to buy Harware Firewalls

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Message-ID: <m3brusgjjb.fsf@worst-case.niehaus.dynodns.net>
Date: 14 Aug 2003 20:51:04 +0200
From: Sebastian Niehaus <killedbythoughts@...dcrime.net>
To: Nathan Seven <scosol@...oo.com>
Cc: joey2cool@...oo.com, Tri Huynh <trihuynh@...up.com>,
   bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft urging users to buy Harware Firewalls

Nathan Seven <scosol@...oo.com> writes:

> What exactly are we arguing about here?

Where? Your quoting is umm... unconventional....

> Anyone who has *any* machine running unfiltered on an
> external IP address without shutting off all unneeded
> ports and services on the machine is very simply an
> idiot.

Yes.

> That's really all you need to know.

People running services that cannot been attached to a specifies
interface instead of advertising their services for everyone could be
considered as well as idiots.

But the real idiot is probably the software's manufacturer.

Are 'they' going to sell little MS-SmartWall-Boxes in future?

Sebastian

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