Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:55:45 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQUEST FOR COMMENT Message-ID: <20011023105544.B37753@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <001c01c15b97$75bb8f20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <F69p8eurQQtHT1DdQcp000011ad@hotmail.com> <001c01c15b97$75bb8f20$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On 10/23/01 12:51 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt sat at the `puter and typed: > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Julian Morgan > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 11:49 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: REQUEST FOR COMMENT > [ . . . ] > > Following that is often the ease of use argument. Well, the key to > fighting this one is two-pronged. First your own house must be in > order, if you have lingering problems with your deployment then you > must fix them. You also have to understand that the achilles heel of > this argument is that usage is only as good as the monkey behind the > wheel. It makes no difference how easy something is to run - morons > will be successfully able to wreck anything through incompetence. And this gets into my favorite argument against buying *ANYTHING* because it's easy to use: They make it easy to use so you can hire unskilled people to use it, but do you really want a moron running your security? Might as well open the gateway up and give out the password. I prefer to develop something to do the damn job! Make it intuitive to the knowledgable user - if it's Granny trying to read email, then fine, that's your target user, but Granny isn't your target user for a damn FIREWALL! Now go get the PHBs! Good luck Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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