Re: Client Security solutions
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:13:58AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody quite dared to sell, was a rackmount box that could be plugged into a punter's network and show a reassuring green SECURE light. Remind me again what economic theory says one should do when other people are leaving money on the table? I think that what prevents the production and sale of such a box is that the punters don't really want the box with the light, they want an entity to sue when the box with the light turns out to be lying. (And an extra helping of fail for me for mailing back to Peter directly instead of to the list.) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | d...@xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com pgpD4aXlNTwJ4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Client Security solutions
It was thus said that the Great Peter Corlett once stated: On 5 Aug 2011, at 21:32, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: [...] A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody quite dared to sell, was a rackmount box that could be plugged into a punter's network and show a reassuring green SECURE light. Remind me again what economic theory says one should do when other people are leaving money on the table? One should always separate fools from their money? -spc (ObSoftwareHate: the Mac email client that doesn't allow one to delete email addresses from your address book)
Re: Client Security solutions
* Gert Doering g...@greenie.muc.de [2011-08-05 21:35]: Why oh why can't something that should be a virus scanner just do exactly *that*, And why doesn't snake oil do just its one damned job, either?
Re: Client Security solutions
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:18:49PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: And why doesn't snake oil do just its one damned job, either? A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody quite dared to sell, was a rackmount box that could be plugged into a punter's network and show a reassuring green SECURE light.
