From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 12:22: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23D237B419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 12:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fA8KLDE62600; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 21:21:13 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <00b301c16893$01bf4cc0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Andrew C. Hornback" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <012301c16875$957dda80$6600000a@columbia> Subject: Re: Lockdown of FreeBSD machine directly on Net Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 21:21:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew writes: > You put too much trust in software developers, > plain and simple. Trust has nothing to do with it. If there is no bridge across a river, there is no way to cross it. If there is a bridge, there is a way to cross the river. In either case, a bridge will not appear or disappear unless someone builds or destroys it. > There are times when the right hand doesn't know > what the left hand is doing, even in software > development. In many projects, yes. For mission-critical projects and the like, this sort of carelessness is not necessarily tolerated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message