Stopping Malware Before It Hits

SpudGunMan writes "John Lockwood, Ph.D, an assistant professor of computer science at Washington University, and the graduate students that work in his research laboratory, have developed a hardware platform called the Field-programmable Port Extender (FPX) that scans for malware transmitted over a network and filters out unwanted data."

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sounds like malware to me

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Don't they use something like this in China? I know some people want it here in the USA too. Selective filtering of network content is Carnivore. This new effort is just trying to get around holes in M$ junk. I say, let the shit burn rather than work on the next big thing in censorship.

-what? is this thing live? I love Big Brother.