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The Sound of Your Firewall
upside writes "It had to be done. Once The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom gave us a 3D visualization of a firewall, someone was bound to ask themselves 'What does your firewall sound like?'."
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Eh, I always imagined that Norton would say, "Oh well, I've bogged the system down with so much auto-protect nonsense that they won't even notice you."
Open source of course
Peep Network Auralizer, iam sitting by a waterfall myself, those pesky flies crop up now and again but the toad deals with them
its a little old as it works, now if i can find a version for windows users they might understand the amount of network traffic from worms etc that their cable modem sees
What?
My (home) iptables based firewall only allows incoming traffic on port 80, and only to machine inside the network. The other poor Windows machines are not receiving 'a whole hell of a lot of traffic.'
It may be true that some Windows based firewall software is ineffective but I really have no idea having not used any.
"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
My buddy started a company that specializes in custom applications of sound design ... one of the things they did was stock-market 'audio interfaces' so that you could listen to stock and other financial data instead of having to watch it all the time. I can't find the link for the details on this project, but at the time it seemed like they were making real progress on this kind of interface...
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
it sound like this:
"Hello"
"How nice to meet you"
"come in"
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