Problem #1 why would anti-virus software which is added after the fact for protection really "know" what was good or bad in the context of the operating system? Why should it be trusted as much as the operating system itself?
Problem #2 signature based detection does not work when threats are polymorphic.
Sure we can have fast packet inspection.... Just how much innovation are we going to get from Cisco to make it practical. I would bet that most of the Internet backbone is composed of Cisco routers. Is making this possible or better going to increase Cisco's market share? maybe or maybe not? The responsibility for good/better packet inspection is shared between the ISPs and the router vendors. Innovation is what is needed. Where is the incentive to innovate going to come? The dominant router vendor has to make money by selling the new feature to create the incentive. But downloading a different version of IOS software doesn't cost money.
And since the number of ISPs is decreasing/has decreased in number. This becomes an exclusive club that serves the masses.
I agree with your assessment that the RedHat and Mandrake companies are making business decisions about what to support and for how long.
The keyword is support. It is my hope this does not mean that at the very least RedHat and Mandrake should not have to maintain available documentation for their older releases.
Yeah.... I used to work for one of those "corporations" that used LRP. This was no corporation, but was a small startup fixed wireless Internet ISP that is now dead. In my experience, this company may not have contributed monetarily to LRP, because it did not survive itself. LRP is great though. Used to make a router out of a small simple pc with a SanDisk drive in it. Makes a great little router. Combining LRP and Zebra made a nice small office alternative to a Cisco router. I really respect that effort, and looking back I think the company I was working for that benefited from his LRP efforts may have even paid for it if required to do so.
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Problem #1 why would anti-virus software which is added after the fact for protection really "know" what was good or bad in the context of the operating system? Why should it be trusted as much as the operating system itself?
Problem #2 signature based detection does not work when threats are polymorphic.
Sure we can have fast packet inspection....
Just how much innovation are we going to get from Cisco to make it practical. I would bet that most of the Internet backbone is composed of Cisco routers. Is making this possible or better going to increase Cisco's market share? maybe or maybe not? The responsibility for good/better packet inspection is shared between the ISPs and the router vendors. Innovation is what is needed.
Where is the incentive to innovate going to come? The dominant router vendor has to make money by selling the new feature to create the incentive. But downloading a different version of IOS software doesn't cost money.
And since the number of ISPs is decreasing/has decreased in number. This becomes an exclusive club that serves the masses.
Sounds like a simple belief security through obscurity. That is really sad.
Yeah... This person has zero credibility with that link!! Guess if the story sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.
What a jerk!!!
Thank you for explaining this so well!!! I would Mod this up if I could
I agree with your assessment that the RedHat and Mandrake companies are making business decisions about what to support and for how long.
The keyword is support. It is my hope this does not mean that at the very least RedHat and Mandrake should not have to maintain available documentation for their older releases.
Right on!!
Yeah.... I used to work for one of those "corporations" that used LRP. This was no corporation, but was a small startup fixed wireless Internet ISP that is now dead. In my experience, this company may not have contributed monetarily to LRP, because it did not survive itself. LRP is great though. Used to make a router out of a small simple pc with a SanDisk drive in it. Makes a great little router. Combining LRP and Zebra made a nice small office alternative to a Cisco router. I really respect that effort, and looking back I think the company I was working for that benefited from his LRP efforts may have even paid for it if required to do so.