From: Peter Monta <pmonta@qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:43:04 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Firewall USA to Firewall China
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> [ Jim Clark, "Firewall China" ]
>
>   A: A lot of people think that's not possible. It's difficult to enforce,
>   but it's certainly possible. A corporation has a so-called fire wall -- a
>   single point of entry into the corporate net. You can have a country
>   that has a single point of entry into its "country net." It's doable. All
>   you need, though, is one breach of security, and there's a leak.
> 
>   A fire wall is a filter -- it filters and doesn't let certain people come in.
>   You can only come in if you have the right permission. So you could
>   easily set that up so that it would filter out your objectionable
>   material.

He seems to be confusing network security with the propagation of content.
A firewall is going to have a lot more trouble filtering dangerous
thoughts than UDP port 1234, unless there are humans in the loop.

Peter Monta   pmonta@qualcomm.com
Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar