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In article <41238a46$0$21756$61fed72c@news.rcn.com>, 
"Ted" <nothanks@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>"Phred" <ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:2oh4g2FakdlpU3@uni-berlin.de...
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>> Not too long ago I recall reading a review that suggested *most* 
>> available firewall programs (commercial as well as freeware) did not 
>> protect against "spoofing" where a malicious program on your machine 
>> simply said something like "I'm your e-mail program" and the firewall 
>> let it out.  A *very few* actually used digital signatures to verify a 
>> program was what it purported to be. 
>> 
>> I hope someone can reassure me that all the previously inadequate 
>> firewalls now address this issue?
>
>I don't know enough about all the different firewalls to reliably answer
>that question.  I do know that local client/server fingerprinting has
>become more popular.  It is usefull as a secondary level of defense,
>and hyping it is a good way to sell firewalls.  Heck, I'm almost
>tempted to buy a couple.  For purposes of developing demonstrations
>of how easy it is to bypass them ;-)

You seem to be saying these things don't work anyway?  :-)

Sigh... Life really was *much* simpler when running MSDOS 3.2 and 
logging in to a Unix box over a 2400 baud modem to read News.


Cheers, Phred.

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