[wellylug] Opensouce "infectious" and should be "Quarantined"- NZ Government..

[David Murray]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 11:02 +1300, Timothy Goddard wrote:
> David Murray wrote:
> 
> >
> > Would you say that very many layers of well maintained "filing
> > cabinet" grade security devices are better than one honking great safe
> > with three-feet-thick walls and a silent combination lock?
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > David Murray
> >
> >
> If the contents of the safe is my savings, sure! But if the contents of
> the safe is not that important, just a filing cabinet will do. It's not
> simply a case of what is better, but a case of the combination of the
> costs and potential losses that best suits an individual situation. As I
> said, the high grade security (the safe) is often cheap enough to be
> worth using, especially in a corporate setting ,but you wouldn't buy a
> safe to protect your child's homework.
> 
> To get back to your question, you're right that the safe security is
> better than layered filing cabinet security where possible, but it is
> frequently the case that some layering (such as having both a 'hardware'
> firewall and the software firewalls on individual computers) can be
> sufficiently cheaper that it becomes a viable option.

Hi, Timothy.

I tend to the opinion that very strong "safe" security is essential on
network borders, and that layers of various types of security within
individual machines are also essential to prevent possible attacks from
within the network.

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Now, on a different topic, I was asked yesterday whether or not diald
was the programme that is used to automatically dialup a ppp connection
as required. I said that I thought it was. Was I correct?

The reason why I'm asking is that I have set my Smoothwall box to
automatically dial out as required. I have not investigated the internal
operations of that firewall too thoroughly as yet but I had been of the
impression that it was using diald; and I did feel a right charley in
not being able to give a definitive answer on the spot.


Cheers

David Murray