On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:31 -0700, Joe Huber wrote:
> ....what's enough between me and the big wide world?
>
> I was just at a fine site - www.irs.gov and noticed that they have the olf
> 1040 PDF set up with document rights so that you can enter your information
> and save the form locally. This stuck me as "nifty" (not sure why at the
> moment) and I began to type away. This was on an old Windows 2000 boxen
> (we'll leave out the discussion as to whether or not that was wise in and of
> itself).
>
> In any event after typing 3 characters I froze in my tracks. Back the train
> up... close IE, launch it again, surf to irs.gov, pull up 1040 PDF and
> there's the 3 characters I entered. Uh-huh. Close IE, launch IE, tools >
> internet options > autocomplete > clear forms, visit irs.gov, pull up 1040
> PDF... there's my 3 characters. Okay this is disturbing... pull plug out of
> wall, stare at box ~30 seconds, boot, lauch IE, surf to irs.gov, pull up
> 1040 PDF image ... is blank.
>
>
> There's a laundry list of questions here but I'll go with this. The coxial
> cable come in the house, plugs into the "surfboard", a CAT-5 runs to a
> Belkin router (does NAT and SPI, no response to ICMP ping, no open gateways,
> no virtual servers), from the router a couple CAT-5 cables run to PCs. Is
> this enough (if I understand the network guy at work "the world" can't "see
> me").
----
paranoia strikes deep
into your life, it will creep
it starts when you're always afraid
step out of line, the men come and talk you a way
think it's time we stop, hey what's that sound
everybody look what's going 'round
You're safe - undoubtedly your version of Acrobat or whatever app you
are using to type on the PDF file has 'cached' it so that your edits
continue to show up.
As for the Belkin being enough to provide the comfort of safety from the
big bad Internet, it's a very good start for sure. Check on the Belkin
site to see if there are firmware updates for it once in a while and
update it - there may be some known exploits for that box.
Craig
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