[TriLUG] OT: USA Patriot Act II

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 09:59 PM, Greg wrote:

> Anyway, what I can tell you regarding Open Source in the government
> space is many, many, many people are very hot under the collar about 
> the
> Slammer worm and there are now questions like "why isn't iptables, or
> something like it, built into the NT kernel so I can globally filter 
> out
> a specific port on every workstation?"

Give credit where credit is due;  later flavors of Windows do indeed 
have some basic firewalling built into the TCP/IP stack.  It's just 
that most IT guys don't know or care that it is there and don't bother 
turning it on.

Chris Hedemark
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