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From: Johannes Schwabe <johannes.schwabe@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: "Barfu Egon jun." <egon@computronic.at>
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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Barfu Egon jun. wrote:

> What do you think about it and which platform/system is the best/better
> one??

I think you sound like someone who sees a firewall as the ultimate
solution to security problems, which it is not, of course. See
http://flummi.de/~bofh/security-faq.html.