Chris Hoff's response on his blog Rational Survivability makes me happy on two fronts. The primary reason I started this blog was to use this medium as an outlet for my ungrounded ego. The other was to participate in the Security Blogging community which was then catching up when I started  this blog 2 years ago. To get a response for my musings from brilliant minds such as Mike Rothman, Alan Shimel, Chris Hoff and others, gives me immense joy. May be this a good therapy for my undiagnosed attention deficit.

It does not matter if Chris is right or I am right. The outcome of IDS/IPS is all determined by random drift of market forces. There is no conspiracy to make IDS/IPS this way or that way. I would like to wrap up with a quote from Arthur Chandler : "We can tell when a technology has truly arrived when the new problems it gives rise  to approach in magnitude the problem it was designed to solve".