>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


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