Re: Personal Firewalls

From: IPGrunt (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: 26 Jan 2005 06:17:00 GMT

Wolfgang Kueter <wolfgang@shconnect.de> confessed in news:ct62uv$k8q$1
@news.shlink.de:

> Philip Dahlstrøm wrote:
>
>> I now need some material on firewalls and if they are the right security
>> software for home users with a single computer connected to the internet
>> - or what alternatives there are. Can someone tell me where to search
>> for information (except google :-)?
>
> Well, again Links to CCC Ulm, (unfortunately in German), which did some
> testing ...
> http://copton.net/vortraege/pfw/index.html
> Source Code of some proofs of concept is availiable on the above page.
> Video:
> http://ulm.ccc.de/chaos-seminar/personal-firewalls/recording.html
>
> Wolfgang
>

Philip,

You might try some of the pop sites, like About.com, Wikipedia, askJeeves,
etc. They have easy to read explanations of these things.

-- ipgrunt

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