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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Response to comments on Security and Obscurity

From: yaakov yehudi (yehuditehila.gov.il)
Date: Thu Sep 02 2004 - 04:24:33 CDT


A firewall is more akin to a specialized filter medium, but filter mediums aren't used as the entrance or exit to a military base.

It is probably possible to find analogies between the information security world and physical - but only on a piecemeal basis, and that is simply irrelevant and pointless.

Peter might be much better to concentrate on the realities and forget about straw-man analogies. What do you think?

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Barry Fitzgerald wrote...

Well, you can try to make an analogy between this and a well-secured network. The problem is that the analogies don't align. A firewall isn't really like a gate with an armed guard at it.

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Ya'akov Yehudi
Information Security Officer
Project Tehila
Ministry of Finance
Israel
http://www.tehila.gov.il/Tehila1/english_site

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