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> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be
by bryancoxwell 3y ago
> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead.
Not sure I understand how this applies to networking?
- Waterluvian 3y agoMost of them don’t really. They're fairly generic grievances that hard things are hard.
- kamray23 3y agoIf you try, you'll very likely succeed. You probably shouldn't, though.
- rusk 3y ago“They were so busy trying to figure out if they could, they forgot to ask themselves if they should”
- hyperman1 3y agoI saw some forcepoint contraption forcing a MITM proxy to all http traffic by injecting a DLL in each process. With sufficient manpower and infosec mandate, it got implemented just fine. But its incomplete buggy win32 API emulation landed on random applications, crashing them, and automatic updates and https got disabled left and right because the MITM flying over the heads of applications validating their certs
- euroderf 3y agoFWIW similar statements have been made regarding the F-4 Phantom fighter jet.
- i_am_a_peasant 3y agoYou can build systems of unbounded complexity that are functionally correct but are inelegant.
- heresie-dabord 3y agoApplying significant force or effort to achieve a narrow definition of success will have unhappy consequences. Understand the entire system before rushing toward a solution.
- dev_slash_null 3y ago"When pigs fly" is an idiom to describe something that is very unlikely or rare. To paraphrase, you can force a square peg into a round hole if you push hard enough, but it will probably lead to instability in unpredictable places. E.g. you could probably tunnel all your corporate traffic through DNS if you try hard enough, but it's probably a bad idea.