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From: brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk (Brandon Butterworth) Subject: Re: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause > I just wanted to remind everybody that tomorrow is Personal Firewall Day. Yuk. Whilst I support people taking care of their security I rank personal firewalls on the same level as virus detection They don't fix the real problems and lead to a dependency culture of constant upgrades (if people bother) and alternative vendor sales fud Unwitting people pay money in good faith, believe they're now safe and expose themselves to other attack vectors that bypass the firewall The products sell on glossy features like reporting to users all the things it saved them from - "someone tried to send you some packets from their server on port 80, they must be trying to steal all your files" creating pointless emails and wasting time explaining (which they don't understand as it's a black box, it said attack so it must have been) I'd rather they spent the money with their ISP who hopefully has some clued staff who will remind them when to patch and handle those that don't when something attacks or hopefully before I see vendors are getting into this now including products that deny access from unclean machines (will this work?) brandon
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