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Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:23:08 +1100
From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: Antisniffer measures (digest of posts)
In-reply-to: <000701c07750$eb585e60$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>; from matrix@ipform.ru
 on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:51:36PM +0300
To: Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>
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On 2001-Jan-05 22:51:36 +0300, Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru> wrote:
>Buying 500$ SNMP controllable switch is CRAZY. I will not do it. It is
>way too expensive. It will cost us about 4000$.

No-one said security was free.  Presumably whatever you are protecting
has a value (otherwise, why are you protecting it).  Any solution you
select will have a cost and have some probability that it will fail.
What you need to do is come up with a solution where the risk and cost
are acceptable given the value of what you're protecting.

Peter


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