Whatever. Comments below.

   -----Original Message-----
   From: Nomen Nescio [[1]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.

References

   1. mailto:nobody@dizum.com