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Subject: Re: system() -> Mosaic
From: Steve Simmons <scs @ lokkur . dexter . mi . us>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 14:10:08 -0400 (EDT)
To: dotytr @ nscultrix2 . network . com (Ted Doty)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, johns @ oxygen . house . gov
In-reply-to: <9404081928 . AA29052 @ nscultrix2 . network . com> from "Ted Doty" at Apr 8, 94 02:28:35 pm

>One thing I have found particularly humerous is that the two biggest
>threads on this list lately have been "Software is grotesquely buggy and
>the damn vendors better do something about it" and "What's the cheapest
>screaning router around?".  Vendors aren't able to do anything if people
>aren't willing to pay for product.

Hear hear!  I was at a client site the other day and they gasped at the
idea of a $25,000 firewall package.  I asked how much they paid for 24x365
security guards, electronic door cards, locks on the doors, keys for desks,
etc, etc, etc.  I told them connecting to the information highway without
a firewall and a security policy is like removing all the doors from your
building.


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