Inventor of Proxy Firewall Blames Hackers

An anonymous reader writes "SecurityFocus published an interview with Marcus Ranum, the inventor of the proxy firewall. It's an interesting reading, and the end is even better: Truly, the only people who deserve a complete helping of blame are the hackers. Let's not forget that they're the ones doing this to us. They're the ones who are annoying an entire planet. They're the ones who are costing us billions of dollars a year to secure our systems against them. They're the ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for peace and the right to privacy."

Comments

its the hackers alright!

[Prophetic_Truth]

with their hair and thier clothes, and thier music! I can't stand 'em!

Re:its the hackers alright!

[Dogtanian]

Yeah, but there's black hat and white hat.

What about the guy who broke into my computer, erased my copy of Windows and installed Fedora Core in its place?

I suspect he was a Red Hat hacker, personally...

Blame Canada

[Anonymous Coward]

Blame Canada

Re:Blame Canada

[hullabalucination]

I hold the Northwest Territories personally responsible for this terrible situation. Also, I believe that we ought to disconnect many third-world countries from the Internet. Places like Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Mauritania and New Jersey don't need to have Internet access.

let's not forget

[g0bshiTe]

bieng the inventor of said firewall they have most asuredly paid your bills for sometime.

Didn't I just read the Onion?

[wubboy]

"Truly, the only people who deserve a complete helping of blame are the hackers. Let's not forget that they're the ones doing this to us. They're the ones who are annoying an entire planet. They're the ones who are costing us billions of dollars a year to secure our systems against them. They're the ones who place their desire for fun ahead of everyone on earth's desire for peace and the right to privacy."

Is it just me or does this sound like a Onion story?

Lord of the Walls

[Alarash]

We only wants our precious proxyses! Trixie, nasty hackeeses! We wont let them behind our precious!

*gollum, gollum*

Re:He means crackers right?

[WormholeFiend]

I thought "cracker" was a racial slur for a white person...

Re:and interestingly enough...

[Zwets]

This new kind of window would provide eXtreme Protection. I guess would be called 'Window XP'.

In a related story

[AtariAmarok]

In a related story, the designer of the Great Wall of China blames Mongols.

You mean deviants right?

[aussie_a]

happy => gay
homosexual => deviant
closet-case => priest

Yeah, go on. Mod me -1. I've got Karma to burn, and if you're so easily offended, perhaps you should turn your computer off. This is a humorous post to demonstrate that words change over time and the OP should learn to deal with it or move to France (where they have a department to try to keep the language pure).

Re:Article is not particularly insightful, really

[jcinnamond]

you never hear people telling the victims of Theives that they should have had three deadbolts on the door

I often go out and leave all the doors open and piles of money lying around and it's amazing how few people are sympathetic when someone steals all my stuff.

Re:Hacker Justification

[marquis-cablewitch]

Trolling entire credit card databases eh? "Hey you, yeah you! You've got a poor credit history! I bet the other accounts laugh behind your back!" Well I'm knackered, best gag I could come up with.