On Saturday 10 January 2004 4:16 pm, Craig White wrote:
> I'll tell you what - if you want chills - set up a computer to act like
> a firewall and make it the default gateway for your network. Only tell
> it to simply log all traffic and do not allow it to connect or forward
> information to the Internet at all. Then install or start a new computer
> with Windows XP - obviously, you will not be able to activate because
> you have no access to the Internet at all. But if all of the traffic is
> logged, you will see all of the attempts by this system to connect to
> Microsoft and possibly many other manufacturers (hp keyboard ?) (mouse
> ?) etc. And of course, all of the port 80 traffic pretty much flows
> freely through firewalls - even through proxy servers that are trying to
> restrict outbound connections. These people aren't dumb and know exactly
> what they need to do to 'phone home.'

Yea,  I use to run sygate as a firewall on windows 98,  and I do remember the 
kernel phoning home,  but this is very old news,  and I don't see people 
coming to linux in the droves because of it.

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Richard L. Proctor
Krystal Computer Services
PC Repairs & Upgrades
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