Thus spake Marcus J. Ranum:
> I played a naughty little game at a conference recently
> where I polled the room by show-of-hands as to what were the
> important things they looked for in firewalls. Features, price,
> and vendor reputation were pretty much the top categories. I'd
> cheated and left "security" off my list and I thought I was going
> to get away with it until someone flagged me when I asked "are
> there any criteria I forgot to put on the list...?"
I'm beginning to feel a little lonely, but am I _really_ the only one
who sees security as a feature? In my mind, a feature is "something
it does". Whether that's provide a point-and-drool puncture apparatus
for the packet filtering (mjr-esque "feature") or provide a
bulletproof defense against IP spoofing (mjr-esque "security") matters
not.
Mike
(completely secure that, if he is in fact the only one, he will soon
find out why ;) )
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