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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:That's great, but... by AviLazar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know, but ever get that burning feeling? You know what I'm talking about right? You know that burning sensation?
    Hmm, oops, ignore what I said

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  2. My firewall sounds like the wind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you think your firewall is doing anything to prevent real attacks against your system, you are very mistaken. Firewalls are typically configured to let a whole hell of a lot of traffic through. Jeez, you have to let the OS itself have full reign of a large gamut of ports just to make it work right.

    And if you don't feel threatened letting the OS have full control of what goes in and out over ports that the firewall has just given up on, then how about the fact that BlackICE, the premier software firewall, was found to have a gaping hole large enough to let the Giver in without touching the sides.

    Firewalls only give the impression of safety and security. Then again, what's the alternative? Unplug the computer from the wall?

    (Actually, the solution is to not do any important work with the computer, as it can be broken into in any number of ways. But we'll just let that luddite thought wail past our ears and pretend that we all have really important work to do)

  3. zerg by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We (my fellow slashdotters) did this already, it was a slashdot story about audio alarms. Someone would have one sound (cricket chirp) go off go off when a web server was hit, another sound (bell) go off when a new mail arrived, etc. Loud noise meant an attack going off, lack of noise (when given constant sound, the sudden quiet is jarring) means the server is down.

    It's the "Spinning Cube of Potential Doom", for God's sake you fuckers! Couldn't you have at least wondered what an "Wailing Alarm of Ultimate Death" sounded like? >_<

    Next story.

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  4. Re:firefox howling by phreakv6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    whoever modded that flamebait... that was sposed to be funny ... oh me and my sense of humour.. This message was posted with a firefox 0.9 duh

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  5. Re:Sound of a router during a Slashdot flood by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny posts don't gain karma :)

    I aint no whore

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