On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 14:28:25 -0400
Daniel M Gessel wrote:
> On 2024-08-02 08:38, Rich Pieri wrote:
> > Probably the closest to perfection we have right now is iPhone.
> Maybe it's my broken sense of humor, but trying to reconcile this
> sentence posted to a Linux discussion group creates a knee
On 8/1/24 18:46, Rich Pieri wrote:
Because we didn't have firewalls in the 1980s.
Correct. Commercial firewalls date to 1995. But it was not an obscure
product offering, Data Communications Magazine called the first one "Hot
product of the year". We were aware there were problems, that is why
On 2024-08-02 08:38, Rich Pieri wrote:
Probably the closest to perfection we have right now is iPhone.
Maybe it's my broken sense of humor, but trying to reconcile this
sentence posted to a Linux discussion group creates a knee-wobbling
quantity of cognitive dissonance...
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 07:35:22 -0400
Dan Ritter wrote:
> The second biggest problem is that we started using a
> firewall-evading technology to invite other people to run code on
> our machines -- web browsers.
This is a big piece of why Kent's perfectly secure system is a myth: no
matter how much
Daniel M Gessel wrote:
> Firewalls seem like an ideal solution: a trusted network inside an effective
> firewall is free from the (not insignificant) overhead of security.
>
> But firewalls aren't completely effective and are only one tool that we all
> use on a daily basis.
The biggest problem
Firewalls seem like an ideal solution: a trusted network inside an
effective firewall is free from the (not insignificant) overhead of
security.
But firewalls aren't completely effective and are only one tool that we
all use on a daily basis.
On 2024-08-01 21:46, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Thu,
