[lug] Firewall what a flare of experience

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:37:39PM -0600, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
>Less functionality is usually SAFER - and there are many browsers out
>there that have less functionality than Netscape and are less common
>= safer.

I don't agree there.  It's a double-edged blade -- it may be less likely
for an attacker to find a problem, but less common also means there
are fewer white-hats looking at it which could result in any vulnerabilities
requiring *LONGER* to find.  The more eyes you have looking at something
the better, IMHO.

QMail isn't more secure than Sendmail because it is less common.  It's more
secure because it had a secure architecture.  Ditto with
the-artist-formerly-known-as-vmailer.

Sean
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