Thomas Grant Edwards says:
Is it my imagination, or is CERT just trying to firewall up the internet into uselessness?
No, they are trying to protect people. I'm about the biggest critic of CERT out there, but I don't disagree with what they said -- although its insufficient.
What we need to concentrate on is secure systems that are not vulnerable to IP spoofing, as opposed to firewalls.
The only way to do that is cryptographic security. See draft-metzger-* in the nearest internet drafts repository.
But of course, more firewalls makes more free transfer of information across the internet more difficult.
No they don't. I'm talking across one right now. I barely if ever notice it.
perhaps this is what the government is interested in reducing.
Please confine the paranoia to places where it is justified. Firewalls are a good and important thing. Perry