{"id":612,"date":"2005-04-16T20:39:42","date_gmt":"2005-04-16T20:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/idiot-proof-firewalls\/"},"modified":"2005-04-16T20:39:42","modified_gmt":"2005-04-16T20:39:42","slug":"idiot-proof-firewalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/idiot-proof-firewalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiot-proof Firewalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A salesman, from some lame company or other, told me that the reason why a certain brand of firewall was popular was it was less difficult to understand than the alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>Now, think about this: if your network people can&#8217;t understand a firewall, do you really want them running your network ? If they don&#8217;t understand the underlying protocols then should they be doing a job where the key skill is to understand the underlying protocols ?<\/p>\n<p>The worst aspect of this is that the people who <i>really<\/i> understand the things are generally much younger, more keen, more intelligent and far more immature. Pity that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A salesman, from some lame company or other, told me that the reason why a certain brand of firewall was popular was it was less difficult to understand than the alternatives. Now, think about this: if your network people can&#8217;t understand a firewall, do you really want them running your network ? If they don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}