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Story: Microsoft: Firewalls are failing to keep out hackers

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 6 October 2004, 2:55 PM)

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Use encryption (openssh, https) and his next step is gone. The idea of a firewall is not to provide absolute, but just to make it harder, rather like how even glass windows, and hollow-core dores keep nearly 100% of all theives away.

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