[49909] in Cypherpunks
Firewall USA to Firewall China
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Kucharo)
Mon Feb 12 16:39:31 1996
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 13:09:16 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: sophi@best.com (Greg Kucharo)
At the meeting on saturday the idea of a Firewall USA was discussed.
Here's a quote from Jim Clark CEO of Netscape on the idea of a Firewall
China, just for comparison.
Q: The Chinese government has declared its intention to filter out
what it considers to be objectionable material from the Internet. If
you were a consultant for the Chinese government, what technology
would you recommend that they use to do that?
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.
this is a temp .sig
