Newsgroups: sci.space.history
From: henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: You all have it wrong!!!!
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:05:57 GMT

In article <38EBDECD.6C6A9D19@corpmail.telstra.com.au>,
Julian Bordas  <Julian.Bordas@corpmail.telstra.com.au> wrote:
>> >"Be careful not to step in the Microsoft."  -- John Denker
>> Wonderful. :)
>
>Who is John Denker?

Senior networking guy at AT&T Shannon Labs, and a prominent early adopter
of the Linux FreeS/WAN encryption software <http://www.freeswan.org>.  He
was discussing why you *don't* want to give your employees secure network
connectivity from home by putting encryption software on their Microslop
boxes, but rather want to put (Linux-based) smart firewalls between them
and the network.  His more detailed explanation:

  "When you touch somebody's Microsoft box, you make it unstable.  It was
  unstable before, too, but now it's your fault."

--
"Be careful not to step                 |  Henry Spencer   henry@spsystems.net
in the Microsoft."  -- John Denker      |      (aka henry@zoo.toronto.edu)