From: Jan van Hoek (NL) 

>> We ar in the process of evaluating this currently:
>>     http://shopip.com/index.html
>> (...) So far it seems to be a very cool device (...)

How are you going with this evaluation?? Any results so far??

I'm sorry to say that my snake oil alerting device went off several times
while following the URL that you gave. That page prominently contains the
phrase "proactively secure OpenBSD", quotes Steve Wozniak at the
same time, and also refers to a "IDNet challenge" they seem to
have survived while providing a useless URL for more info.

There is an accompanying Powerpoint presentation that shows it to be an
All-In-One device, that also replaces the existing firewall, the IDS and
much more. This does not fit into my "division of
responsabilities" concepts, and places all bets on a single card (so
to speak).

But we have to be open minded about this, hence my question. Maybe their
marketing department is responsible for the snake oil alerts, thereby
unwillingly drowning some really existing technical merits.

 -- Jan van Hoek (NL)
 -- Mon, 11 Nov 2002 01:56 +0100 CET

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