Good point, but...
The question you need to ask is: how much money is it worth to you to crack a file? If it costs me the same amount in service fees as time on a supercomputer would, I'm not going to bother, am I?
Another point regarding encryption is, if I have streaming data coming at me in encrypted blobs from 150 different sources over the net (say, a movie file), what kind of desktop machine would I need to do all that decryption in real time? Maybe I'm not saving resources on my local system after all...
Aren't we forgetting the most important security feature of a firewall...? There's no logging! This is fly by the seat of your pants security if you ask me. You gonna hang a lucky rabbit's foot over the thing?
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Good point, but... The question you need to ask is: how much money is it worth to you to crack a file? If it costs me the same amount in service fees as time on a supercomputer would, I'm not going to bother, am I? Another point regarding encryption is, if I have streaming data coming at me in encrypted blobs from 150 different sources over the net (say, a movie file), what kind of desktop machine would I need to do all that decryption in real time? Maybe I'm not saving resources on my local system after all...
er... syslogd is a user space processes, and is exploitable. Holy just defeated the purpose of a halted system, Batman!
Aren't we forgetting the most important security feature of a firewall...? There's no logging! This is fly by the seat of your pants security if you ask me. You gonna hang a lucky rabbit's foot over the thing?