From: Glenn M Wilson <triphibious@j...>
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 00:30:03 EDT
Subject: Firewalls and going places was Re: [DS2] Technoid Walkers
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:51:44 -0700 "Casquilho, Daniel" > <Daniel.Casquilho@disney.com> writes: Our firewall at NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping - aka Not Interested in Mapping Anymore) has the kind of firewall you only see in your dream - your nightmares. It's stopped some really innocuous e-mails because it had this list of "dirty words" (think 'sensitive' that can also be used in everyday communication also) and all the expected American Government filters to prevent 'waste, fraud and abuse' of government systems. They definitely work... And when someone is trying to 'mess' with the computer systems between us, the rest of the Intel community or a Military site and the 'good guys' put up an increased degrees of "Infocon" (degrees of active defenses against 'bad guy' attacks on systems) it can really be touchy! But then there was this military officer with hundreds of porn sites bookmarked on several machines.. or should I say EX-military... One thing the federal government does well is catch the real flagrant abusers and hammer them. There was this contractor employee who broadcast to all of NIMA the hoax of Famous-Barr cookie recipe charge of $250. She was 'off the system' that day. We had just had a message to all (including contractors) about inappropriate use and severity of punishment less then 72 hours earlier. Maybe she was a 'delete before reading' type person. All in all a necessary hinderance to even legitimate 'primary research' on the web. It would be funny if it didn't always seem to occur when you most need 'speedy' response times... Gracias, Glenn/Triphibious (American Mongrel) You don't have to be French to be a 'frog', or even human! Nektons - Real Marines! (Die, Ralnai, Die!) Starguard, Dirtside 2, Ratner's Space Marines and Full Thrust/FB1. Resistance is everything!