Re: PCFriendly DVD Backchannel

From: Martin Stricker (shugalat_private)
Date: Tue Mar 05 2002 - 16:34:32 PST

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    Olin Sibert wrote:
    
    > Programs like BlackIce get almost all the way there, except they seem
    > to be only port-based, not address-based.  To avoid each user having
    > to make all the choices, one might distribute configuration files with
    > known unresirable locations already listed.  It might also be possible
    > for the warning to "score" the warning in some way (e.g., if the
    > program is not a known browser, it's somewhat more suspicious for it
    > to be talking to a web server).
    > 
    > Have I missed sme great piece of software that does this already
    > (Linux or Windows), or is this an unmet need?
    
    Linux kernel firewalling, especially the iptables (availabe only in
    kernel 2.4.*). With iptables you can even search the packets for a
    string and deny/allow on that! There is a mailimg list about iptables
    and netfilter:
    archive: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/netfilter/
    subscribe: http://lists.samba.org/listinfo/netfilter
    
    Best regards,
    Martin Stricker
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