The technology's a bit dated in this one, I know -- it was written in 2005 and looks back a few years beyond that. It was published in the last-ever issue of Streetwise, 68, Christmas/New Year 2007-2008, p. 7.
THE GREAT COMPUTER SECURITY DEBATE
Fire is for firewalls, which, despite the name,
are software held on disks, not bricks aflame.
Fire is for arguments: should we install
firewalls ourselves, or trust the main firewall?
Fire is for hell -- flickers and smoke whereby
the world looks as it does, with stakes so high.
Fire is for martyrs, taunted to a passion
by spam, flesh, money, Goblin-Market-fashion.
Fire is for blushes, since the martyrdom
was ended by the filtering of spam,
not by firewalls. The burn is from the embers
of martyrdom the martyred one remembers.
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