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Subject: Re: taking security direction from vendors -- RealAudio's advice
From: Rick Murphy <rick @ TIS . COM>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 95 20:58:15 -0400
To: "J. Eric Townsend" <jet @ abulafia . genmagic . com>
Cc: "'Firewalls List'" <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 95 11:04:04 PDT." <9507211804 . AA28488 @ abulafia . genmagic . com>

One thing I really enjoyed about this:

> Is it safe for me to configure my firewall this way?
> 
> Ultimately, any traffic you allow through your firewall carries a
> potential (though perhaps small) threat. Nevertheless, allowing
> RealAudio through your firewall presents a smaller threat than
> public-domain services such as SMTP or FTP because the protocol is
> not public-domain and thus cannot easily be spoofed. 

Security thru obscurity taken to new heights.. 
"Open these ports to UDP. Trust Me." :-) :-)
	-Rick


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