[mdlug] [Fwd: [opensuse-offtopic] And now the Manchurian microchip]

[Joseph C. Bender]

David Lane wrote:
> If you have a firewall then you can track all in and outbound connections. 
> 
	And gets you what, exactly?  Unless you know where, when and what to 
look for, you're never going to see it.  And in such a scenario, you 
design things such that "phoning home" doesn't directly point at you, 
the originator of such things.

	There are ways of defending against such things, but firewall 
connection tracking isn't it.


-JCB