person for Hewlett-Packard (about the HP internal net with 19 worldwide connections to the Internet - by the way, allegedly no one has ever succeeded in breaking their firewalls)
I am unable to discuss the details of this (so dont ask), but HP's firewall was breached way back in the early 90's. The breach was not discovered, more upgraded over so I am unsure as to wether it is still open. Blanket statements such as company X or firewall Y not being breached are almost always false. One annecdote is a domain installed a firewall but didnt bother to examine their internal hosts security. This was a mistake because a number of hosts were *already* trojaned so an outsider could trigger the mechanisms to allow entry seamlessly through the firewall. This is a good arguement for keeping OS versions current. Have a nice day. Mark mark@lochard.com.au The above opinions are rumoured to be mine.