What firewall does the feds use?

Hello.

kdcdq,

I will agree with post #22 and just expand it a bit.

IMO this whole thread is a joke. Just a bunch of guesswork which, I have to admit, was initiated by me. But I was thinking "OK, there is a very small chance that someone knows the answer to the OP's question. And even if there is someone who knows it, he surely won't tell us for obvious paranoid reasons. So let us start a little guessing here so the thread doesn't remain empty, just for a bit of fun".

Then you come in, I don't know who you are and whether what you claim is true or not, and post something like you did. Anyone could've come in here and said that, we are all here anonymous to each other.

You see, here we have 3 options:

- post your guesswork
- post the exact info
- do not post at all

I am sorry, but your post looks to me like a simple bragging without any substantial proof.

 

Seer,

I completely understand your points of view under the "three options" in your last post. It's true; you don't know me from Adam, and whether what I say/post here is, indeed, fact or fiction.

BUT, I do want to clarify one fact: I am NOT, in any way, shape, or form, "bragging without any substantial proof" about my security consulting for the government. I have endured many weeks and weekends away from my home and family in some God-awful places (like after Hurricane Katrina as an example).

So, given the "3 options" in you last post, I will choose #3: "do not post at all".......

 

Fair enough, kdcdq. My point was just that we all must post here according to general forum customs. We do not know each other and as far as I'm concerned you could be a Grand Master of Shadow Ninjas - or whatever you wish to be. So to claim something like that you need to provide some proof.

In the end, I do not say that I don't believe you. It is just that you haven't told us anything that we all didn't already know - as was jokingly indicated in post #11.

But we have ventured far OT here (if there is a topic at all) so I will just say

Cheers and no hard feelings,

 

The same here, Seer. I, too, have no hard feelings.

The best to you and yours....

 

Hello,
I'm pretty sure the feds, more specifically, the Pentagon, uses Sygate Personal Firewall. Why? because they just got hacked pretty recently.

 

I can answer you question, but not for free. In exchange I need to know what s/w and h/w use CIA and Mossad

 

They use Windows XP Home Edition and D-Link DI-524 routers with comodo free firewall.

I'm guessing they keep their data on offline servers and use endpoint security just in case a hacker breaches comodo.

 

Aha, OK. Now my turn. Feds use Vista and nothing else. While hackers are looking for a way to break Comodo they are completely safe

 

Makes sense

 

Sure. They compete who makes 10 Comodo exploits faster, and this takes all their time

 

One thing I can't understand, why is such a secret about what they are using for their computer security, if every security given enough time can be penetrated?
Even if there is a possibility of an prototype security system, everything has vulnerabilities, everything can be hacked.
Are they afraid that their system would be hacked, if they tell to public what security system they use against hackers?
To me, it's useless, since hackers can find out these, sooner or later, and these hackers can tell that to other hackers if they wish too, and soon you have everyone knowing it, so what's the point?

 

Would you rather a hacker knew what security apps you use so he has to do a lot less work trying to get in or would you rather they had to work their butts off trying to find out what you use. So why tell them when it is a lot easier to just keep it secret. I know I am not going to loose any sleep not knowing what the Government uses for security.

 

I know what they use, It's Norton Internet Sercurity 2005 because they don't have the budget for the newer edition

seriously, the feds are not going to broadcast such information

 

I think it's safe to say they use whatever they want to use, which probably includes a wide variety of solutions, and they aren't going to discuss it with anyone....

 

So why a post then?+1

 

just bragging without substantial proof

 

I have inside ino and they have just recently started implementing zone alarm pro since it was free the other day and the savings will be given to the supervisors at the end of the year calibration.

 

Keep in mind that the "FEDS" are not a heterogeneous group, but in fact many groups often in competition or contentious with each other. NASA openly admits that it has 3000 windows based workstations. Other agencies don't even admit that they exist.

If I was a betting man, I would say that they use both custom made super "un- impenetrable" firewalls all they way to some knuckleheads who go naked.

The book the "Cuckoo nest" revealed the stupidity of many Feds and their lack of computer security even after being told about it. It is a dated work now but I think that many of it's warnings go unheeded--even to this day. That is why they are often hacked.

'One hand does not know what the other is doing' seems to be a good motto for the feds.