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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.

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  1. first fist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first fist is when you fist someone first in quake 3 arena

  2. Timothy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm surprised he posted this story, since it doesn't involve MIT or a fucking Teddy Bear. Hey, I got an idea, why don't some of you MIT boys get around to stuffing a firewall into Timothy, rather than a switch into a Teddy Bear? For that, I would subscribe to Slashdot to see.

  3. That is wrong. by Mighty-Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    EAT IT TIGERS. KU KICKS ASS! first ever 16-0 in the big 12. HAHHAhahaah.

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  4. Bush and Blair nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, OT, but this is bizarre and silly. You have to do a little more than declare War on Terrorism to get a nobel peace prize. Here is a page about it:
    http://www.eskimo.com/~cwj2/actions/bushblairnobel .html

    Is nothing sacred??

  5. Re:Wozniak? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear sir,
    I would like to inform you that I have personally sent an email to CmdrTaco requesting that your IP address be blocked from slashdot for your comments.

  6. news for nerds by FrostedChaos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    DOS reserves five special file handles for use by itself and applications programs. They are:

    0000h STDIN Standard Input Device
    0001h STDOUT Standard Output Device
    0002h STDERR Standard Error Output Device
    0003h STDAUX Standard Auxiliary Device
    0004h STDPRN Standard Printer Device

    These handles are predefined by DOS and can be used by an application program. They do not need to be opened by a program, although a program can close these handles. STDIN should be treated as a read-only file, and STDOUT and STDERR should be treated as write-only files. STDIN and STDOUT can be redirected. All handles inherited by a process can be redirected, but not at the command line.

    These handles are very useful for doing I/O to and from the console device. For example, you could read input from the keyboard using the read (3Fh) function call and file handle 0000h STDIN), and write output to the console screen with the write function call (40h) and file handle 0001h (STDOUT). If you wanted an output that could not be redirected, you could output it using file handle 0002h (STDERR). This is very useful for error messages that must be seen by a user.

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  7. Re:This article is a perfect example... by talks_to_birds · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Sorry: you're quite right.

    From now on it'll be <strong>strong tags</strong>

    How's that?

    t_t_b

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  8. Re:This article is a perfect example... by talks_to_birds · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    hmm..

    Although I do reserve the right to use an asterisk in an expletive, as I did in the offending passage, above, by replacing the vowel with a star to soften the full weight of my choice of words...

    t_t_b

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  9. READ FOR ELITENESS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  10. Re:This article is a perfect example... by CaptainSuperBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Personally I've been trying to leave Slashdot for a while now.. the only thing stopping me is, I can't figure out a way to get out of here with enough suitable fanfare and ranting. As one of the site's first users and most prolific karma whores, I wouldn't want to be forgotten. I guess I'll just have to ask myself, "what would Signal 11 do?"

  11. A much better firewall... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    This firewall keeps almost everyone away from my home network ;)

  12. Good review on Backdoors & Honeypots... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This article has a good explaination on honeypots and backdoors in security devices.

  13. Uh.. you don't have to pay by zoid.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't pay.. Look at ads.. Is there a problem? You could just go away and not pay. Personally, I'm not sure, I might like the ads.