Re: firewalls

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: firewalls
Date: 10:46 on 29 Oct 2004
> I like how to this day a lot of off-the-shelf firewalls are too stupid to  
> allow for popular instant messaging clients.

I like how to this day people are still designing protocols that
embed IP addresses in TCP streams and expect to be able to make
arbitrary TCP connections. I like the way applications that use
HTTP or HTTPS don't provide any mechanism to traverse a proxy or
even to specify an alternate address. I like the way people still
think that serving files from FTP only is a good idea. It's like
there are people out there who have spent the last 15 years in some
kind of cryogenic time capsule and think this is still the flat
universally routed unfirewalled spam-free macro-virus-free Internet
of 1989.

Well, no, I don't like that at all.

There's stuff above here

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