RE: [Full-Disclosure] Response to comments on Security and Obscurity

["yaakov yehudi" <yehudi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A firewall is more akin to a specialized filter medium, but filter mediums 
aren't used as the entrance or exit to a military base.  

It is probably possible to find analogies between the information security 
world and physical - but only on a piecemeal basis, and that is simply 
irrelevant and pointless.

Peter might be much better to concentrate on the realities and forget about 
straw-man analogies.  What do you think?

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Barry Fitzgerald wrote... 

Well, you can try to make an analogy between this and a well-secured network.  
The problem is that the analogies don't align.  A firewall isn't really like a 
gate with an armed guard at it.  

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Ya'akov Yehudi
Information Security Officer
Project Tehila
Ministry of Finance
Israel
http://www.tehila.gov.il/Tehila1/english_site

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