Re: US Navy attempting to patent the firewall
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Paul Johnson wrote:
> The good news: You might be able to still stop it.
>
> The bad news: Time is limited.
>
> Patent application is here:
> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050022023%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20050022023&RS=DN/20050022023
>
> How you can help is here:
> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=190534&cid=15675770
>
> Sorry for the long link, USPTO's website isn't good for 80-column URLs and
> tinyurl is tacky.
>
> So if you're a US resident or citizen (by choice or otherwise), act now, or
> forever hold your peace. If you need motivation, think back to how annoyed
> you were when Amazon patented the browser cookie ("one-click checkout").
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/07/us_navy_patents.html#c85119
Bruce, I'm disappointed with the over the top tone here.
Anyone with any experience in the classified information
area of the DoD knows that this is not a firewall, but a
method to exchange information between networks of different
classification levels. It is a very important and non-trivial
issue.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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