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Re: Door Locks
by Simon on Monday 06/May/2002, @14:16

This is a good comment.
Zone-alarm is protecting us from "legitimate" software calling out without our knowledge ie spyware.
Further the spyware is only really hostile in the same sense that Mcdonalds is hostile, it's just something you want to keep under control before it does do you harm

This software can only crawl so far up the hostility ladder before the principals will fall foul of anti-hacking laws.
Commercial spyware that renames itself as mozilla to dial out would probably be illegal.

Light protection could be quite effective against spyware.

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Re: Door Locks
by Michael on Tuesday 07/May/2002, @04:45

If you don't trust your applications, you need sandboxing.

Sandboxing, as I hinted above, is more than a 'yes/no' question to
"can program X connect to x.x.x.x on port Y".

By definition, that's a lot of questions to answer for your web browser -
or else you allow your web browser all access on port 80? In which case, what are
you protecting by asking the question?

Perhaps you really want your web browser not to send personal info?

"Protect the info" then seems a better idea than pretending you've secured
the network against information leakage, no?

You have to learn from the mistakes windows software has made,
not copy what they do to try and reach the same unsatisfactory point.

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