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Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:26:46 +0200


Why not just bring back the "evil bit" as a serious proposal?

I've recently discovered a useful application for the evil bit:
sandboxes for mobile code (think Java applets) can use it to instruct
firewalls not to open additional ports just because a client sends a
"PORT" command on a port 21/TCP connection. 8-)


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