full-disclosure - [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm

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From: smcmahon at eiv.com (Shawn McMahon)
Subject: [OFFTOPIC] Zone Alarm

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:07:45AM -0400, JT said:
> I don't quite understand here. A user generally has WAY more options/ways to
> make a mistake interacting with Zone Alarm vs say, a Linksys firewall. Yes,
> the user will not know how to flash it, and will not stay up to date with
> any updates, but that's our job anyways. IMHO any auto update feature is a

There are over 600 million people worldwide who are on the Internet in
one way or another.  Care to guess how many of those don't have a system
administrator maintaining their systems?

And before you say something like "well, they deserve what they get",
remember that if less than 1 tenth of 1 percent of them are compromised,
it can effectively bring the entire Internet to a crawl for all of us.

Do you honestly expect the six million in Africa to all go out and buy
routers?

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