From: "Geo" 

"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:4327067b{at}w3.nls.net...

> FWIW is there any firewall that the administrator or root cannot turn off?
> Would it be sensible software design to disallow the machine's owner from
> configuring it?

It would make sense to assume that software trying to get out would be able
to add a simple text registry entry and perhaps they should consider
encrypting the data in those entries  so that only the firewall can
write/read it?

Or oh here's a unique idea, when the firewall detects a change ASK THE USER
if it's ok.

I mean heck this is really piss poor, so I install a new program and with a
simple registry edit it allows itself to go out thru my firewall and I
don't even get a friggin warning? Why even bother blocking outbound?

Geo.

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