Re: ? - I don't know where to send this one, so I'm sending i t here...

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:40:34 +1300, Nick FitzGerald said:

>    Why are our "protection" systems based on the obviously absurd
>    notion that it is somehow more useful/efficient/whatever to detect
>    more known bad stuff (which is a form of default allow) than simply
>    to detect and allow only the known good stuff (default deny)?

Because Willy Wonka never *did* figure out how to sell somebody a
second Ever-Lasting Gobstopper.

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