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Story: Microsoft: Firewalls are failing to keep out hackers

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Posted by: Michael P. Soulier (Tuesday 5 October 2004, 7:37 PM)

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If Microsoft did produce a "smart firewall" like this, it would just be another excuse for the security of the end applications, like Microsoft IIS server, to suck even more than they do now. Maybe if they wrote decent apps in the first place they wouldn't have to worry so much about malicious traffic.

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