Reply to post: Re: One lesson to be learnt frin this (was Wormable holes)

While Microsoft griped about NSA exploit stockpiles, it stockpiled patches: Friday's WinXP fix was built in February

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Re: One lesson to be learnt frin this (was Wormable holes)

"We considered that putting a hardware firewall between it and the rest of the network with access to that sole port provided adequate security for the devices remaining lifetime."

What's a "hardware firewall"?

Presumably they are all full of firmware that could be buggy?

Perhaps there are some very simple, and therefore verifiable, hardware firewalls? I hope such things exists!

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