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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Empirical data surrounding guards and firewalls.
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- Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Empirical data surrounding guards and firewalls.
- From: "Yaakov Yehudi" <yehudi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 15:45:41 +0200
James said...
> As far as I can see it the only difference is scaling, you can make
> many many millions of requests before a flood warning appears, whereas
> you only need to refuse to leave a few times before the police are
> called. I guess humans have less patience than computers.
>
> Of course I could be missing something?
Evol replied...
Yes, Firewalls and people are not equivalent. Information technology
has no sentience Mr James.
YY...
Sentience: the readiness to perceive sensations; elementary or
undifferentiated consciousness
The point could be argued for. :-)
YY
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