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Captain Crunch's New Boxes, Part II
micsaund writes: "It looks like the infamous Captain Crunch has been toiling away for 3 years on a firewall now known as the Crunchbox. It runs OpenBSD and is administered via a web-based interface. Steve Wozniak is quoted as saying it's 'next to un-crackable.' Check it out at ShopIP. The Register also has an article on it. As an aside, since the Linux Router Project (LRP) appears to have been sold-out and GnatBox is a tad expensive, is anyone aware of some kind of 'packaged' firewall with a slick interface available for free?" We mentioned Draper's venture into firewalls last year, but there's been some progress since then.
that you don't have a modem in your crunchbox
:)
Can you get into it?
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
next to un-crackable
What does Steve Wozniak have against Captain Crunch? we all know what happened to Oracle when they made similar claims.
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I've tried several different types of Firewall distros. Coyote, Smoothwall, that Mandrake one, etc. I finally settled on Freesco, because it runs off the fat32 filesystem. All of the other ones are basesed on non-journaling Filesystems (Ext2). And my electric goes out quite frequently.
I was grocery shopping today. I noticed that the elephant is no longer on the peanut butter cap'n crunch. And that 'thing' is no longer on the crunch berry box. I figured the first link in this story would go here. Nope. Just some boring hacker crap.
(and for those keeping score, I am in fact blocking timothy's articles from the front page. I came here after seeing the headline on another site.)
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
I think this guy has finally found a way to make money on free software: Forget selling licenses; forget selling service and support. Just sell protection from ridicule and verbal abuse.
Preserving some semblance of self-esteem has clear value in the marketplace. I think this business plan will be successful.
But, from what I gather, and I have done some searching, Dick (aka Richard Morrell) seems to have a few screws loose. From all accounts, he is cranky and sometimes more than downright nasty.
An ill-mannered, non-social programmer? Impossible!
It may be unbreakabale but looks like it is
slashdottable.
View a few IRC logs etc. to get a feel for how "Dick" seems to view newbies and/or non-paying customers
Now there's a business model I hadn't considered: Give the product away for free, charge people to be nice to them.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
You just described just about everyone who produces open security software.
With one notable exception, of course; you're forgetting Theo's reputation for being so friendly and cuddly, much like a kitten.
--saint