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From: "Nathan Eisenberg" <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
And this is why the prudent home admin runs a firewall device he or she can trust, and has a "default deny" rule in place even for outgoing connections.
The prudent home admin has a default deny rule for outgoing HTTP to port 80? I doubt it.
Why not? You can poke holes in it specific to *workstations*; anything that isn't a workstation doesn't generally need to be phoning home without you knowing about it... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274