Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:37:53AM -0700: >> OK, here's something interesting, and I wonder if XP does the same >> thing. I remember back in my days at Akamai I found (by sniffing my >> network connection) that W2K would phone home before the login screen >> even popped up, but this is a little twist on that I think. >> >> I booted my W2K PC this morning with the LAN connection disabled. Now I >> realize that in a networking environment, the system has to connect to >> the domain controller in order to authenticate the user. However, when >> the OS came online, Windows Update reported that a new security update >> was available. >> >> It's nice to know that Windows phones home without me telling it that it >> can. I'm curious to know how often newer versions of Windows phone home. > > ...and what they send. > >> I also find it interesting that it seems the only way to disable the >> network connection completely (once you've configured it), is to unplug >> the cable or un-configure it. > > Firewalls can worth in both directions. And probably should do so more > ofen. > >> It makes one appreciate Linux that much more. > > OS X has a per-application outgoing firewall application available for > it (Lil' Snitch) ... does linux have this functionality yet?
per-application? How would that work.. ..I guess maybe the firewall on the client itself, would check the process owning each outgoing packet? would that be a significant performance hit? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
