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Subject: RE: [firewalls] Digest Number 388
From: Jeff Deitz (JeffDVSP.com)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 12:49:13 CST

>The "personal firewalls" are not exactly firewalls; It's kind of like a
>cross between Mac's "Gatekeeper" and a firewall; It's an application
>firewall, I suppose you could say. The idea is that it protects you in
>both directions. It doesn't handle virii or anything.

Who said that this is what a personal firewall is? What you are saying is
what you would like a personal firewall to become, not what the standard
definition of a personal firewall is then? This could be a new program that
covers more then what a standard firewall does, but should not be called a
firewall. A personal firewall is still just a low grade firewall installed
on a single system at this time. Could someone can enlighten me to where
these new definitions or interpretation of a personal firewalls are coming
from, besides journalist that is.

>The thing is, it's not really like keys at all. It's more like there's a
>door keeper, and the other program is wearing a mask with your face
>printed on it, and he waves them through after seeing them through the
>corner of the eye. Using the corner of the eye is looking at the name of
>the application; Using the whole eye (or even both eyes, which would be
>amazing) would be to inspect more data.

Actually it is. Again this is what you would like to see a personal firewall
become and not what the current definition of what a personal firewall is
today. Please, if someone can point me in the direction of where these new
terms and definitions are coming from I would really appreciate it.

>The fact is that the personal firewall products lend a
>false sense of security, which may actually make someone LESS secure in
>some ways, through complacence.

I totally agree.

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