On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:14:30PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
I wouldn't rely on software firewalls. At the same store you buy your computer, also buy a hardware firewall. Hopefully soon the motherboard and NIC manufacturers will start including built-in hardware firewalls. But sometimes, such as dialup modems, software firewalls are the only alternative.
Hopefully soon people will start running operating systems, web browsers, and email clients where they have no need for a "personal firewall".
its a nice dreamworld you live in, but seriously.... 98% of the copmuter using population will use whatever the 'commodity' OS is for their platform, that means windows on intel and OSX on ppc...
(Or, with luck, certain vendors will fix their buggy software)
and Sean will/maybe-has-already pointed out that "unix" (in all it's glorious variations) is no more secure than anything else... as much as it saddens me to say all that it sure seems to be the truth. :( -Chris