[e2e] Rebroadcast of Sigcomm Keynote 12:30pm EDT Today!
Mark Crovella
crovella at cs.bu.edu
Wed Aug 21 16:18:32 PDT 2002
David Reed wrote:
>At 05:15 PM 8/21/2002 -0400, Erich Nahum wrote:
>>In addition, not only do many corporate policies dictate firewall
>>usage, anyone who is *not* behind a firewall or NAT is asking to be
>>hacked.
>Anyone who thinks that a firewall or NAT prevents hacking hasn't
thought
>about the problem clearly.
What he said was:
not behind a firewall/nat -> danger of being hacked
What he didn't say was:
behind a firewall/nat -> no danger of being hacked
Taken a logic course recently? :)
Anyway, I had the same reaction as Erich. The whole time I was watching
the broadcast from my home machine, with firewall and nat temporarily
turned off, I was thinking about my home network's vulnerabilities ...
Mark
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