From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jan 7 20:39:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3152837B400 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 20:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14FUBW-0000Jb-00; Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:45:30 -0700 Message-ID: <3A5945EA.94BFBAA1@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 21:45:30 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Artem Koutchine , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Antisniffer measures (digest of posts) References: <000701c07750$eb585e60$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> <20010108122308.J71232@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2001-Jan-05 22:51:36 +0300, Artem Koutchine wrote: > >Buying 500$ 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). This is the point of security, including computer security, that is least understood. Spending more on security than the value of what you are protecting is stupid and wasteful. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message