Whatever. Comments below. -----Original Message----- From: Nomen Nescio [mailto:nobody@dizum.com] Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 12:00 AM To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net Subject: Personal Firewalls Fail the Leak Test

problem of hacker attacks. Most people don't have any vulnerabilities; there's nothing a hacker can do to you. So I argue against the necessity of any kind of inbound blocking tool," said Gibson.

This man is clearly a security genius.

"They do a cryptographic signature of the programs you're allowing. That's not hard to do, but they're the only ones who do it," he said.

Is it the responsibility of firewall software to do integrity checking? Isn't host-based intrusion detection a different thing altogether? I'm not defending software that is pretty obviously crap, but at least make an intelligent argument on it's weakness.