And under the name Kerio Personal Firewall (apparently the company split, or somesuch), it still is:
"Available FREE for home use. Business and institutional customers are encouraged to download this software for evaluation purposes."
As the OP said, it's quite good, doesn't leak memory as ZoneAlarm does (or did), and can be configured to the granularity of application, port, service, direction, and time.
It also can be configured to ask about connections not covered by its rule set, and to create new rules based on the answer.
Actually, that tanker - the Prestige - was flying the Bahamas flag, but was last inspected and declared seaworthy by The American Bureau of Shipping - a US organisation.
We should note that The American Bureau of Shipping, is a private, not a governmental, body.
[snip: a tale lacking only Birkenstocks and an eco-friendly coffee mug, and yes, he chats with the proletariat and uses public transportation, too!] Overall, it was a pleasant and enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half on a Sunday afternoon.
Where's the option for "-1 pretentious pseudo-intellectual self-aggrandizement"
changes in personality in bypass surgery survivors,... might be caused by impurities introduced via the bypass pump, resulting in some brain damage
Could well be. It's the right brain that's pessimistic, if I recall correctly, so perhaps damage to the left brain caused this.
On the other hand, pychological stress resulting from the heart disease or the surgery might be to blame as well. In my case, since having a heart attack, I'm rather more pessimistic (realistic?) about my chances of living a long life.
Of greater impact on a daily basis, however, is that I tend to worry over any shortness of breath, heartburn, angina, or upper back pain, wondering if it is the onset of another attack. As these symptoms are also symptoms of common and negligable problems, I end up spending more time than I'd like, wondering if I'm about to die or end up in an emergency room. That tends to make a man a little less cheery.
This is the text of the part (d) of the "Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002", which is section 225 of the (House of Representatives version) of H. R. 5710, the Bill in question.
Section 225 is found on page 51 of H. R. 5710
I've removed the line numbers, but kept the original lines breaks. The quoted text begins after the three dashes, and ends before the four dashes
--- (d) EMERGENCY DISCLOSURE EXCEPTION.-- (1) IN GENERAL.--Section 2702(b) of title 18, United States Code, is amended-- (A) in paragraph (5), by striking ''or'' at the end; (B) in paragraph (6)(A), by inserting ''or'' at the end; (C) by striking paragraph (6)(C); and (D) by adding at the end the following: ''(7) to a Federal, State, or local governmental entity, if the provider, in good faith, believes that an emergency involving danger of death or serious phys- ical injury to any person requires disclosure without delay of communications relating to the emer- gency.''. (2) REPORTING OF DISCLOSURES.--A govern- ment entity that receives a disclosure under section 2702(b) of title 18, United States Code, shall file, not later than 90 days after such disclosure, a report to the Attorney General stating the paragraph of that section under which the disclosure was made, the date of the disclosure, the entity to which the disclosure was made, the number of customers or subscribers to whom the information disclosed per- tained, and the number of communications, if any, that were disclosed. The Attorney General shall pub- lish all such reports into a single report to be sub- mitted to Congress 1 year after the date of enact- ment of this Act. ----
Below is the text of Section 2702(b) of title 18, United States Code, as provided by findlaw.com. As I note below, the version found through findlaw differs slightly from the version to which H.R. 5710 appears to refer. Please unsderstand that nothing in this post should be construed as legal advice, and do not rely on the below as neccesarily accurate.
Italics indicate text removed from 18 United States Code 2702(b) by H.R. 5710, Section 225, part (d) Boldface indicates text added to 18 United States Code 2702(b) by H.R. 5710, Section 225, part (d)
* United States Code
o TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
+ PART I - CRIMES # CHAPTER 121 - STORED WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSACTIONAL RECORDS ACCESS
U.S. Code as of: 01/02/01 Section 2702. Disclosure of contents
(a) Prohibitions. - Except as provided in subsection (b) -
(1) a person or entity providing an electronic communication
service to the public shall not knowingly divulge to any person
or entity the contents of a communication while in electronic
storage by that service; and
(2) a person or entity providing remote computing service to
the public shall not knowingly divulge to any person or entity
the contents of any communication which is carried or maintained
on that service -
(A) on behalf of, and received by means of electronic
transmission from (or created by means of computer processing
of communications received by means of electronic transmission
from), a subscriber or customer of such service; and
(B) solely for the purpose of providing storage or computer
processing services to such subscriber or customer, if the
provider is not authorized to access the contents of any such
communications for purposes of providing any services other
than storage or computer processing.
(b) Exceptions. - A person or entity may divulge the contents of
a communication -
(1) to an addressee or intended recipient of such communication
or an agent of such addressee or intended recipient;
(2) as otherwise authorized in section 2517, 2511(2)(a), or
2703 of this title;
(3) with the lawful consent of the originator or an addressee
or intended recipient of such communication, or the subscriber in
the case of remote computing service;
(4) to a person employed or authorized or whose facilities are
used to forward such communication to its destination;
(5) as may be necessarily incident to the rendition of the
service or to the protection of the rights or property of the
provider of that service; or
(6) to a law enforcement agency -
(A) if the contents -
(i) were inadvertently obtained by the service provider;
and
(ii) appear to pertain to the commission of a crime; or or
(B) if required by section 227 of the Crime Control Act of
1990. The copy of 18 US 2702(b) available through findlaw.com has no paragraph (6)(C) ''(7) to a Federal, State, or local governmental
entity, if the provider, in good faith, believes that an
emergency involving danger of death or serious phys-
ical injury to any person requires disclosure without
delay of communications relating to the emer-
gency.''
[snip of several paragraphs of thoughful security paranoia] Please chip in if you can think of anything I haven't--this is pretty off-the-cuff.
Do that bit in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicron: make your door frame out of a big electromagnet, so when The Man carts your PC away for analysis, the HDD get degaussed.
Use a proxy to filter out what you don't want. Use the browser to render the pages.
The proxy'll work with any browser that allows you to set a proxy, so that you can set up a rule set that doesn't change when/if you change browsers (i.e., in cases where the site only supports, e.g., IE).
More importantly, the proxy (if it supports regexed grepping) can be set up to remove or alter any arbitrary HTML -- something most browsers aren't set up to do. And it provides a additional layer of defense when the browser is buggy (see the earlier/. story today on IE's 'ability' to run arbitray code from a supposedly 'local' page).
I use Proxomitron under Windows. It does arbitray regex, so I can remove ads, flash, abitrary javascript, etc. I can also add or change elements (showing hidden fields is useful in debugging). And I suspect I'll be able to come up with a filter for the IE bug I mentioned above.
FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR STRICTEST CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION. THIS IS BY VIRTUE OF ITS NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND 'TOP SECRET'. I AM SURE AND HAVE CONFIDENCE OF YOUR ABILITY AND RELIABILITY TO PROSECUTE A TRANSACTION OF THIS GREAT MAGNITUDE INVOLVING A PENDING TRANSACTION REQUIRING MAXIIMUM CONFIDENCE.
IN MY COUNTRY, I AM THE FORMER MINISTER OF DIGITAL CASH, A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENTS HAS LEFT US WITH 30 GIGABYTES (GB) OF eCASH. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO ASSIST US IN DOWNLOAD IT, I WILL GIVE YOU 10% (3 GB) OF eCASH.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT MY BROTHER IN-LAW MR. BELLO ABACHA IMMEDIATELY ON TELEPHONE NUMBER 234-1-7591526 OR FAX NUMBER 234-1-759O845 WHO WILL INFORM YOU PROPERLY ON THE PROCEDURES FOR EXECUTION . PLEASE, BE INFORMED THAT THIS PROPOSAL IS 100% RISK FREE. HOWEVER, THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THIS PROPOSAL IS VERY IMPORTANT.
Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
I'm just guessing here, but... he had no need to carry condoms, right?
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TPF used to be freeware.
And under the name Kerio Personal Firewall (apparently the company split, or somesuch), it still is:
"Available FREE for home use. Business and institutional customers are encouraged to download this software for evaluation purposes."
As the OP said, it's quite good, doesn't leak memory as ZoneAlarm does (or did), and can be configured to the granularity of application, port, service, direction, and time.
It also can be configured to ask about connections not covered by its rule set, and to create new rules based on the answer.
Get it here
I wonder how long it will be before McDonalds drops the name and just goes with the arches.
Judging by the lack of literacy displayed online... all 2 soon now.
Hey, there's no 'ping' button on ie's taskbar, how can the average user know that command exists ?
'Ping' is a duck. I learned this in first grade.
(But check out This Amazon review (scroll down) by : John E. Fracisco. (No, the link doesn't give me referer bonuses or whatever.))
Actually, that tanker - the Prestige - was flying the Bahamas flag, but was last inspected and declared seaworthy by The American Bureau of Shipping - a US organisation.
We should note that The American Bureau of Shipping, is a private, not a governmental, body.
[snip: a tale lacking only Birkenstocks and an eco-friendly coffee mug, and yes, he chats with the proletariat and uses public transportation, too!]
Overall, it was a pleasant and enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half on a Sunday afternoon.
Where's the option for "-1 pretentious pseudo-intellectual self-aggrandizement"
Oh yeah, what happened to the [PAID ADVERTISEMENT] disclaimer that should have bordered this article top and bottom?
changes in personality in bypass surgery survivors,... might be caused by impurities introduced via the bypass pump, resulting in some brain damage
Could well be. It's the right brain that's pessimistic, if I recall correctly, so perhaps damage to the left brain caused this.
On the other hand, pychological stress resulting from the heart disease or the surgery might be to blame as well. In my case, since having a heart attack, I'm rather more pessimistic (realistic?) about my chances of living a long life.
Of greater impact on a daily basis, however, is that I tend to worry over any shortness of breath, heartburn, angina, or upper back pain, wondering if it is the onset of another attack. As these symptoms are also symptoms of common and negligable problems, I end up spending more time than I'd like, wondering if I'm about to die or end up in an emergency room. That tends to make a man a little less cheery.
How the heck is this [parent comment: That is awesome....Until it's hacked by Chinese!!!] funny?
It's funny as a heart attack.
Drum roll, please!
(Actually, it's quite a bit funnier: I chuckled at the joke a lot more than I chuckled when I had my heart attack.)
Imagine walking down a supermarket aisle and hearing a chime as you pass the peanut butter letting you know it's on sale.
.gifs.
Imagine me getting annoyed as hell at a shopping cart that beeps, squeals, shouts, and prehaps shows animated
Imagine me walking out of the store without making a single purchase.
Imagine that I do not believe that my purpose in life is to be the recipient of advertising anytime my eyes are open.
Place the cylinder on a table, and press down on it hard with 8 fingers.
Eight fingers?!?? You have eight fingers?
Bart?
Fox addresses henhouse: "If we cooperate, we can process many more chicken-nuggets much more efficiently."
This is the text of the part (d) of the "Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2002", which is section 225 of the
(House of Representatives version) of H. R. 5710, the Bill in question.
Section 225 is found on page 51 of H. R. 5710
I've removed the line numbers, but kept the original lines breaks. The quoted text begins after the three dashes, and ends before the four dashes
---
(d) EMERGENCY DISCLOSURE EXCEPTION.--
(1) IN GENERAL.--Section 2702(b) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended--
(A) in paragraph (5), by striking ''or'' at
the end;
(B) in paragraph (6)(A), by inserting ''or''
at the end;
(C) by striking paragraph (6)(C); and
(D) by adding at the end the following:
''(7) to a Federal, State, or local governmental
entity, if the provider, in good faith, believes that an
emergency involving danger of death or serious phys-
ical injury to any person requires disclosure without
delay of communications relating to the emer-
gency.''.
(2) REPORTING OF DISCLOSURES.--A govern-
ment entity that receives a disclosure under section
2702(b) of title 18, United States Code, shall file,
not later than 90 days after such disclosure, a report
to the Attorney General stating the paragraph of
that section under which the disclosure was made,
the date of the disclosure, the entity to which the
disclosure was made, the number of customers or
subscribers to whom the information disclosed per-
tained, and the number of communications, if any,
that were disclosed. The Attorney General shall pub-
lish all such reports into a single report to be sub-
mitted to Congress 1 year after the date of enact-
ment of this Act.
----
Below is the text of Section 2702(b) of title 18, United States Code, as provided by findlaw.com. As I note below, the version found through findlaw differs slightly from the version to which H.R. 5710 appears to refer. Please unsderstand that nothing in this post should be construed as legal advice, and do not rely on the below as neccesarily accurate.
Italics indicate text removed from 18 United States Code 2702(b) by H.R. 5710, Section 225, part (d)
Boldface indicates text added to 18 United States Code 2702(b) by H.R. 5710, Section 225, part (d)
* United States Code
o TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
+ PART I - CRIMES
# CHAPTER 121 - STORED WIRE AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSACTIONAL RECORDS ACCESS
U.S. Code as of: 01/02/01
Section 2702. Disclosure of contents
(a) Prohibitions. - Except as provided in subsection (b) -
(1) a person or entity providing an electronic communication
service to the public shall not knowingly divulge to any person
or entity the contents of a communication while in electronic
storage by that service; and
(2) a person or entity providing remote computing service to
the public shall not knowingly divulge to any person or entity
the contents of any communication which is carried or maintained
on that service -
(A) on behalf of, and received by means of electronic
transmission from (or created by means of computer processing
of communications received by means of electronic transmission
from), a subscriber or customer of such service; and
(B) solely for the purpose of providing storage or computer
processing services to such subscriber or customer, if the
provider is not authorized to access the contents of any such
communications for purposes of providing any services other
than storage or computer processing.
(b) Exceptions. - A person or entity may divulge the contents of
a communication -
(1) to an addressee or intended recipient of such communication
or an agent of such addressee or intended recipient;
(2) as otherwise authorized in section 2517, 2511(2)(a), or
2703 of this title;
(3) with the lawful consent of the originator or an addressee
or intended recipient of such communication, or the subscriber in
the case of remote computing service;
(4) to a person employed or authorized or whose facilities are
used to forward such communication to its destination;
(5) as may be necessarily incident to the rendition of the
service or to the protection of the rights or property of the
provider of that service; or
(6) to a law enforcement agency -
(A) if the contents -
(i) were inadvertently obtained by the service provider;
and
(ii) appear to pertain to the commission of a crime; or or
(B) if required by section 227 of the Crime Control Act of
1990.
The copy of 18 US 2702(b) available through findlaw.com has no paragraph (6)(C)
''(7) to a Federal, State, or local governmental
entity, if the provider, in good faith, believes that an
emergency involving danger of death or serious phys-
ical injury to any person requires disclosure without
delay of communications relating to the emer-
gency.''
Ever heard of the Kennedy family?.... Take this bill that just passed 90-0. The Democrats voted for it too.
Many Democrats did vote for it. However, the vote was 90 to 9. Among those voting against was Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy.
[snip of several paragraphs of thoughful security paranoia]
Please chip in if you can think of anything I haven't--this is pretty off-the-cuff.
Do that bit in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicron: make your door frame out of a big electromagnet, so when The Man carts your PC away for analysis, the HDD get degaussed.
Not to sound like a broken record, but you could easily write a regex in Proxomitron to do this.
You'd spit out a copy of the form url, formatted as you wish, and also spit out the original unaltered.
(In fact, there's already a Proxomitron filter (regex) to display hidden inputs, which is useful in html page debugging.)
mod parent up!
Use a proxy to filter out what you don't want. Use the browser to render the pages.
/. story today on IE's 'ability' to run arbitray code from a supposedly 'local' page).
The proxy'll work with any browser that allows you to set a proxy, so that you can set up a rule set that doesn't change when/if you change browsers (i.e., in cases where the site only supports, e.g., IE).
More importantly, the proxy (if it supports regexed grepping) can be set up to remove or alter any arbitrary HTML -- something most browsers aren't set up to do. And it provides a additional layer of defense when the browser is buggy (see the earlier
I use Proxomitron under Windows. It does arbitray regex, so I can remove ads, flash, abitrary javascript, etc. I can also add or change elements (showing hidden fields is useful in debugging). And I suspect I'll be able to come up with a filter for the IE bug I mentioned above.
I ask you, where is my digital cash?
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
FIRST, I MUST SOLICIT YOUR STRICTEST CONFIDENCE IN THIS TRANSACTION. THIS IS BY VIRTUE OF ITS NATURE AS BEING UTTERLY CONFIDENTIAL AND 'TOP SECRET'. I AM SURE AND HAVE CONFIDENCE OF YOUR ABILITY AND RELIABILITY TO PROSECUTE A TRANSACTION OF THIS GREAT MAGNITUDE INVOLVING A PENDING TRANSACTION REQUIRING MAXIIMUM CONFIDENCE.
IN MY COUNTRY, I AM THE FORMER MINISTER OF DIGITAL CASH, A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENTS HAS LEFT US WITH 30 GIGABYTES (GB) OF eCASH. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO ASSIST US IN DOWNLOAD IT, I WILL GIVE YOU 10% (3 GB) OF eCASH.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT MY BROTHER IN-LAW MR. BELLO ABACHA IMMEDIATELY ON TELEPHONE NUMBER 234-1-7591526 OR FAX NUMBER 234-1-759O845 WHO WILL INFORM YOU PROPERLY ON THE PROCEDURES FOR EXECUTION . PLEASE, BE INFORMED THAT THIS PROPOSAL IS 100% RISK FREE. HOWEVER, THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THIS PROPOSAL IS VERY IMPORTANT.
, my wife is an Anthropologist and jumps all over me when I use the term "Cro-Magnon"
Hey, whatever works to keep the romance alive, I guess.
Of course, I was completely outclassed by a guy at my college who carried at all times, among other things, flashlight, rescue sheers, first aid kit, fire repellent mask, multitool
I'm just guessing here, but... he had no need to carry condoms, right?
I have had an avalanche of questions from users about what 'Open Source' means and how it will affect them. Many are scared of the implications....
Sometimes, people don't believe a thing's valuable unless they have to pay for it. (And often with good reason; ad-ware's a case in point.)
Some other people don't feel they have any control over you, without having paid you, and thus having something (theoretically) to sue about.
So offer to sell these doubters a support contract, or specialized installation or customization.
For the humor impaired, the parent post should have been moderated "Funny", not "Offtopic".
Or even better: "Ironic"
So now you can quickly ship a rubber dinghy to me at my house on the Outer Banks/sea shore/bay?
So remember, gotta wipe the sensor everytime!
Oh, trust me! I wipe my sensor everytime.
... which is renowned for it's [sic] spelling prowess? ;)
Not to mention it's [sic] excellence at spotting grammatical errors.