Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote:
> In article <433e5519@news.uni-ulm.de>, bumens@dingens.org says...
> > Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote:
> > > So, I'll stick with what
> > > I'm sure of, and I'm sure that SP2 firewall is not something I will
> > > trust.
> > May I ask you to offer _one_ _single_ technical argument for this point
> > of view now at last?
> Sure, as said several times before - the SP2 firewall runs on the same
> PC as the user who is most likely running as a local administrator and
> has control of the personal firewall.

So you're declining any host based packet filtering on Windows, or you're
requesting not to work as administrator.

With the first I would disagree, with the second, I agree.

I see, you don't have technical critics on the implementation of the
Windows-Firewall, though.

> If that's not enough of a
> TECHNICAL REASON then you are completely missing what security is really
> about.

"Leythos", could we please stop the pure polemics now? I don't want to
have a "discussion" by offending each other all the time.

Yours,
VB.
--
MAC-Filtering bringt so viel Schutz vor "Hackern" wie Zeitungspapier vor
einer Atombome. (MAC filtering is protecting against "hackers" like newsprint
is protecting against a nuclear bomb)
- Christian Forler in de.comp.security.misc