Chapter 19. Where Do We Go from Here?

 

It is not your part to finish the task, yet you are not free to desist from it.

Where Do We Go from Here?

Pirke Avoth 2:16

 
 --RABBI TARFON, C. 130 C.E.

We hope that, by now, we have made two points very clear: that there is indeed a threat, but that the threat can generally be contained by proper techniques, including the use of firewalls. Firewalls are not the be-all and end-all of security, though. Much more can and should be done.

Here’s our take on where the future is headed. We’ve been wrong before, and we’ll likely be wrong again. (One of us, Steve, was one of the developers of NetNews. He predicted that the ultimate NetNews ...

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