Re: Interesting infographic on the history of firewalls

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

Dotzero wrote:
> http://www.net-security.org/images/articles/infographic-history-firewall-general.jpg

Not bad! The only part that made me go, "scrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeee... wait!" was
the "firewall is an invisible wall"
Um, no, the only firewall that's 'invisible' is called a "switch" ...

Oh, and the first DOS attack was not discovered in 2000. It was far 
earlier than
that. I'm not sure when, though. I was party to discussions regarding 
'testing'
IP stacks with fuzzed packets in 1990 or thereabouts...  At the very 
least, jsz's
stack-jamming trick (multiple TCP half-open connections overloading queue)
was used by Mitnick on Tsutomu's machine in 1994. So the 2000 figure is at
least 6 years off, probably more like 16.

mjr.
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Marcus J. Ranum, CSO, Tenable Network Security, inc. http://www.tenable.com
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