This is all making me very worried about Brad's MailScanner and whether or not it actually caught any viruses that might infect my mutt mail client.
I wasn't aware that a firewall needed configuration files or GUI. What is my firewall doing? I don't know. How can claims of pure ignorance, prejudice and incompetence prevail? Was it scanned by MailScanner? That's what I really want to know. Chris Eidem [cei...@primealliancesolutions.com] wrote: > >From the g+ spew: > > "I grew up and got a life! > > "You boys need a good beating with the clue stick: > Hacking configuration files directly does not give you better security. > Hacking configuration files directly does not make you better at security. > > "And the converse is true: > Using a GUI to make firewall changes does not give you worse security > Using a GUI to make firewall changes does not make you worse at security. > > "You still need to know what you are doing! > > "Any view contrary to this is borne of pure ignorance, prejudice and > incompetence." > > > So, if there were some distro with a GUI front end for this "security > professional" with OpenBSD in the background, with some other name and > distributed as a bootable DVD -- call it DoucheWall -- OpenBSD would all of a > sudden become a "firewall"? > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of > Chris Smith > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:56 PM > To: OpenBSD-Misc > Subject: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall... > > ... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. > > Also if you " walk into any security experts convention and claim that > raw OpenBSD is "a firewall", you will get laughed out of the room for > lack of clue." > > Guess I've been wrong all these years: see the comments to > https://plus.google.com/u/0/104027218792812194992/posts/K3NsGE2UrCe -- Keep them laughing half the time, scared of you the other half. And always keep them guessing. -- Clair George
