Patrick Riley Ganger, Greg and David Nagle. ``Better Security via Smarter Devices.'' This paper provides an outline of how computer system security may be increased by the use numerous system devices providing security perimeters. For example, each NIC or router could provide firewall functionality and storage devices could protect important data even when the OS is compromised. Having smarter devices would allow many new actions for security administrators. For example, NICs or routers could refuse to forward packets that seem to belong to an email virus. A storage device could ship off important data without interference from the OS. The paper concludes with the two important questions of what each device should be able to do, and how one could manage a large number of separate security perimeters. The biggest problem I see with this idea is that the security system itself is much more complicated. While each component's security perimeter may be simpler to implement, the whole system is more complicated. Complication and security are as opposed as Batman and the Joker. Since devices and network administrators must have the ability to affect other devices (to raise security or ship off data) and correct configuration is likely to be extremely challenging, it seems quite likely that weaknesses in the entire security system could create numerous security holes, possibly increasing the number of breakins while reducing the severity.