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From: pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Reducing the risks when connecting to an internet
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.151017.2023@hemel.bull.co.uk>
Date: 26 Nov 90 15:10:17 GMT
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ji@close.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) writes:
>And remember that this should only be a temporary measure, while you
>plug holes in your individual hosts. Do not get lulled into a false
>sense of security. Protections and security should be enforced at the
>host level. If you suspect that your networking daemons are buggy, get
>your vendors (or your systems programmer) to fix them. 

Gosh, I am glad to see somebody making that point, ("security is a host
problem not a net problem"). There is an almost Pavlovian response to
networks.