>From the g+ spew:
"I grew up and got a life! "You boys need a good beating with the clue stick: Hacking configuration files directly does not give you better security. Hacking configuration files directly does not make you better at security. "And the converse is true: Using a GUI to make firewall changes does not give you worse security Using a GUI to make firewall changes does not make you worse at security. "You still need to know what you are doing! "Any view contrary to this is borne of pure ignorance, prejudice and incompetence." So, if there were some distro with a GUI front end for this "security professional" with OpenBSD in the background, with some other name and distributed as a bootable DVD -- call it DoucheWall -- OpenBSD would all of a sudden become a "firewall"? -----Original Message----- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris Smith Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:56 PM To: OpenBSD-Misc Subject: OpenBSD is just an OS, not a firewall... ... if you really want a firewall you need pfSense. Also if you " walk into any security experts convention and claim that raw OpenBSD is "a firewall", you will get laughed out of the room for lack of clue." Guess I've been wrong all these years: see the comments to https://plus.google.com/u/0/104027218792812194992/posts/K3NsGE2UrCe