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Re: cygwin Digest 1 Apr 2003 17:20:50 -0000 Issue 2699 -- re BIG BROTHER





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> Message-ID: <3E89C077 dot F41BCFB1 at doe dot carleton dot ca>
> > Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:38:15 -0500
> From: Fred Ma <fma at doe dot carleton dot ca>
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> To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> S> ubject: Re: Big Brother is Real
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> > OH. MY. GOD.
> >
> > I installed SP3 on my Win2K. Ignorance is NOT bliss.
> >
> > I guess it really is time to move to Linux.
> >
> >
> >
> > Randall Schulz
> >
>
> Any comments on whether a firewall helps?  I don't use office, just
> Win2K (and even then, mostly on cygwin).  I recall a time Kerio
> and ZoneAlarm kept asking for server rights for some Win2K
> service programs.  Internet access didn't work without granting
> these rights.  So I granted them.
>
> Fred
>
> --
> Fred Ma, fma at doe dot carleton dot ca
> Carleton University, Dept. of Electronics
> 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario
> Canada, K1S 5B6

Won't help, Fred. Haven't you seen:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/30/0524244&mode=thread&tid=158
&tid=103&tid=193
or
     "Use a Firewall, Go To Jail"
     http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000336.html

It's only a matter of time before the piracy-nazis reacy up thre to canada
and make it illegal for you to exert your internet privacy rights.



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