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Subject: Re: Info World Firewall Articles
From: "W.C. Epperson" <epperson @ vak12ed . edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 10:10:45 EDT
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <96Aug7 . 120412edt . 9791 @ cannon . ecf . toronto . edu>; from "Steve Kotsopoulos" at Aug 7, 96 12:04 (noon)

Steve K. is alleged to have commented:
> 
> Most Unix systems are unfortunately insecure out of the box.
> We should expect all good firewalls to be highly secure out of the box.
Most _systems_ are unfortunately insecure out of the box.  Whether
a "highly secure out of the box" expectation of a firewall product is
reasonable depends largely on whether you're building or buying.  There
are, of course, other factors as well.
--
W.C. Epperson			"You can't go in there:       
Senior SE                        there's a flashing red light."       
Information Security Officer            --Firesign Theatre--
DBA Emeritus
Curmudgeon-for-Life
Virginia Dept. of Education	        
epperson @
 pen .
 k12 .
 va .
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