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Subject: Re: Firewalls-Digest V4 #518
From: Stanley Chan <schan @ gcau . com . au>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 16:36 EST
To: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

>1. It's Mosad and not Masad
>2. I wish someone would tell me about all those conspiracies I'm supposed 
>   to be a part of.
>3. The question here is a legit one, how can you trust a firewall when 
>   you don't know what the code looks like?
>4. Posting from an anon account won't stop the Masad from finding you, 
>   and now that you've blown their cover, I guess they'll have to kill you.
>

Well I think if we have to worry about a firewall's source code, I would 
spend my time worrying about all the kernels problem instead.
How can you trust a kernel or OS from HP, SUN, DIGITAL or any vendor who
wrote UNIX os for sale and yet they never ever review their source code to
you for certification. 
May be you can argue that the US Defense have looked at it. But how can 
people from outside the US trust it. How do we know that the code did not
include a backdoor to let some one in secretly or download your secret 
documents in the system to a distant machine.


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