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Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?
From: -Hammer- <bhmccie () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:12:21 -0600
WOW. You really are naive.... -Hammer- "I was a normal American nerd" -Jack Herer On 11/10/2011 12:12 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:39:29AM -0600, -Hammer- wrote:OK. Right off the bat you know I can't and won't.Right. I know you can't and won't. I can't either. So we can summarily dismiss all the concerns about liability because they have no relationship to reality. You will not be suing BigFirewallCo, no matter how horribly their product fails, no matter how bad the damage is, no matter how obvious to all of us the failure is, no matter how culpable we might all agree they are, because (a) your pockets aren't as deep as BigFirewallCo's, and (b) you'd probably lose anyway (c) after 11 years and a lot of billable hours for everyone's attorneys. (s/you/I/ and everyone else, unless we happen to work for a Fortune 50 company...and probably not even then.) When it comes to security, I think it's better to rely on software engineering than litigation. ---rsk
Current thread:
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance?, (continued)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Nathan Eisenberg (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? C. Jon Larsen (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Nick Hilliard (Nov 09)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jimmy Hess (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Peter Kristolaitis (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Richard Kulawiec (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Joe (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jack Bates (Nov 10)
- RE: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jones, Barry (Nov 11)
- Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation Jay Ashworth (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Litigation and Subrogation -Hammer- (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Leo Bicknell (Nov 10)
- Re: Firewalls - Ease of Use and Maintenance? Jay Ashworth (Nov 10)