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RE: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN:RESTTutor

• To: 'Dare Obasanjo' <dareo@m...>, Benjamin Franz <snowhare@n...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Painful USA Today article (was RE: ANN:RESTTutorial)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:35:10 -0500
• Cc: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>

I note the same.  Many of my friends who allow 
their children to have unsupervised access to the 
web are very pleased with the results of using 
these firewall programs, particularly, Zone Alarm. 
However, most of them are computer scientists and 
are aware of the issues.  It is important for 
parents to do this because so many freeware file 
sharing systems come bugged.

When the web first kicked into the consciousness 
of non-techies, there was a naive but understandable 
sense that commercial products would be vetted such 
that consumer safety would be a high priority.  Now 
that the Internet has become a ubiquitous  unregulated 
utility, the commercial vendors of operating systems 
should step up to the challenge of meeting that 
expectation and not shunt it off to specialty vendors. 
Otherwise, testimonies before the legislative bodies 
making claims that business can best promote and 
regulate the Internet are not only hollow, but will 
rob the businesses of credibility on this issue. 
The effect of that will be to see stronger measures, 
some misguided, and most punitive.

Put the shelters in before the tornado season.

len


From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...]

I believe a number of firewall products already do this. I seem to remember a free version of Zone Alarm that notified me whenever any program tried to connect to the Internet which helped me to discover a trojan version of notepad.exe on my machine. 
 
Windows XP also ships with Internet Connection Firewall[0] which I personally haven't tried out since I still run Win2K at home. 
 
[0] http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/planning/firewall/default.asp
 

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