Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Mitch's misdirected rant
I look forward to trying out Chandler. I also like and respect much of what Mitch Kapor has written and created. And, point of fact, a big chunk of my career has been working for the company (in its various incarnations) that he created. But Mitch's recent rant about his DSL provider is misdirected. They disabled port 135 traffic so his Outlook client can't talk to his Exchange server any longer. I won't jump on the bandwagon and tell him he should be using Lotus Domino instead but he should be using a VPN for a whole bunch of reasons, Exchange or not. Sure, disabling port 135 is a crude cudgel but don't shoot the messenger. Anyone pushing packets over the Internet needs to assume hostile intent by others. And just because the code is free, doesn't mean that open source projects won't be attacked
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