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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