User: phzzzt

Re:And the stationwagon bypasses the firewall too

On: Mailing Disks is Faster than Uploading Data

Not necessarily. They actually address this in the article:

There are some challenges about how to secure this. The simple strategy is to say, "Look, if you were FTP'ing from this computer, it would be outside your firewall. So I'll mail it to you, and then you plant it outside your firewall, but LAN-connected, so that you're not paying the phone bill."

Of course the converse is available as well:

That's one strategy. The other strategy is to say, "I trust Dave. Dave sent me this computer."

BTW, is reading the article and spell checking your post synonymous with karma whoring?

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Re:Application Firewall

On: Subterfuge with Subterfugue

I like Tiny Personal Firewall a lot better than zone alarm or blackice. :) It's free (for personal use), and gives you fine grained control over the network connections your applications make. You can restrict them to certain ip's and / or port combinations, including incoming / outgoing traffic. They also have a program called Tiny Trojan Trap, which is a sandbox'ing type program, I haven't checked it out, but it sounds neat.

my .02 cents.