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Re: Firewall USA to Firewall China
> [ Jim Clark, "Firewall China" ]
>
> A: A lot of people think that's not possible. It's difficult to enforce,
> but it's certainly possible. A corporation has a so-called fire wall -- a
> single point of entry into the corporate net. You can have a country
> that has a single point of entry into its "country net." It's doable. All
> you need, though, is one breach of security, and there's a leak.
>
> A fire wall is a filter -- it filters and doesn't let certain people come in.
> You can only come in if you have the right permission. So you could
> easily set that up so that it would filter out your objectionable
> material.
He seems to be confusing network security with the propagation of content.
A firewall is going to have a lot more trouble filtering dangerous
thoughts than UDP port 1234, unless there are humans in the loop.
Peter Monta [email protected]
Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar