Re: This just in: Firewalls are obsolete

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> This isn't quite as dumb as it sounds.  People begin to realize that
> it doesn't make sense to license expensive firewalling software which
> suffers from the same vulnerabilities as the services you are trying
> to protect (roughly speaking).
>
> For complex protocols, you need one implementation which gets it
> right, not two or more which come close, but not close enough.

Firewalls exist so that people can do risky things behind them.  Such as
running complex protocols.

I don't see much drop in use of risky protocols, so I don't expect the
use of firewalls to go down much.

                                                BB
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