Personal Firewalls Fail the Leak Test

[Carskadden, Rush]

Whatever. Comments below.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nomen Nescio [mailto:nobody at dizum.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 12:00 AM
To: cypherpunks at 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. 
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