A day late and a dollar short, bud in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r9078021 en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:24:10 EDT Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:24:10 EDT Re: A day late and a dollar short, bud http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9129586 major marco :
said by g0nepostal See Profile:
A company vice president should not use FUD to sell their products and instead point out the advantages of using it either in place of or addition to other security methods such as NAT.


In most instances for most products, FUD is ultimately the entire sales pitch because it works better than any other sales tactic.
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MoveOn.org -DigitalConsumer.org - FTCR.org - Privacy.org - Adbusters.org - Eff.com - Democraticmedia.org - HealthPrivacy.org - Hacktivismo.com - ClearChannelSucks.org - Epic.org - ArnoldWatch.org]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9129586 Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:22:23 EDT A day late and a dollar short, bud http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9078021 g0nepostal : Even consumer-level firewalls do Stateful Packet Inspection now, so they aren't "NAT only" boxes anymore. To engage in Microsoft-style selling tactics by engaging in FUD is sickening, and Paul Henry should know better.

To be fair, most computer users should at least read the manual when installing a home or SOHO-class router. Securing a router isn't that difficult, but then how many users bother to at least crack open the manual?

It all comes down to personal responsibility. A company vice president should not use FUD to sell their products and instead point out the advantages of using it either in place of or addition to other security methods such as NAT. And home users should at least study the manual to attempt to understand what it is the router is designed to do.

gp]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9078021 Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:09:21 EDT