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		rthomas6 on Sept 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Engineer's View of Venture Capitalists (2001) So what happened with the idea to use programmable logic for firewalls? That idea still seems really doable. Has anything happened with that?

vinceguidry on Sept 12, 2013 | [–]

Another thing I don't understand is why didn't they just slap a microprocessor and a simple interface on it and call it a day. Seems like that would be an easy value-add.

vickiku88 on Sept 12, 2013 | [–]

that was my first thought too :)

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