Steve Gibson
and Leo LaPorte list a whole slew of vulnerabilities that no firewall
actually blocks. Every single one has vulnerabilities, there a dozen or
two vulnerabilities everyone knows about, and no firewall on the market
blocks all of them.
Steve wrote one of the first Leaktest utilities, which worked fine, and
alla the folks who create firewalls that fixed the problems he pointed
out. Dozens (at least) of other vulnerabilites are out there now, that no
firewall will catch.
And essentially nobody fixed them.
And essentially everybody sells their firewall as completely secure.
Firewalls are good. Firewalls that don't really protect you, and then lie
about it, are bad. And that essentially means all of them.
WTF? If you can fix it, and claim you -have- fixed it, it might be kinda
nice if you, oh, say, actually fixed it.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Fix it, damn it!
Look at grc.com for more info. Me, I'm screwed.
Nice how the Interweb made all that computer stuff eversomuch more
pleasant and enjoyable ain't it?
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