On Sunday 02 March 2003 22:59 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Likely its to protect windoze boxes from virual loads sent via email. Remember the backbone of the net is Unix yet viruses spread. They spread because they dont harm unix but harmlessly pass through and deliver trouble to windoze boxes. If they infected the backbone a part of it would go down and the spread would stop there. Likely your typical office uses windows but could use a *nix firewall to protect the office.
</politics on> Consider your private attorney communications leaking out if a government sends a backoffice trigger. As of this time I dont know of anyone working on such a project. These days liberty is at its greatest risk due to the War on Islam lead by America. Its for us Nerds to fight by testing and improving the protections for electronic liberty. </politics off>
CWSIV
You were doing just fine, til you had to bring that crap up. Keep your derned 'political beliefs' to yourself. Either that, or come on over here to the States and do me a big favor...jump in front of the next plane/jet/bomb. John