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Net engineer argues firewalls are a security distraction
Posted by: Jordi on Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 08:59 PM
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Early and extensive deployment of firewalls gave internet users “a false sense of security” and compromised the ideal end-to-end transparency of the internet, says former Internet Engineering Task Force head Brian Carpenter.
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