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The Sound of Your Firewall

Posted by michael on from the background-noise dept.

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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  1. Re:Depends on your firewall... by XryanX · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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."

  2. Re:My firewall sounds like the wind by jay-be-em · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

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  3. Re:Anthem / Midi? by torpor · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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...

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  4. Re:The Sound of Silence by alex_ware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it sound like this:
    "Hello"
    "How nice to meet you"
    "come in"

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