Re:from the article (Score 1)

The whole idea looks arse-about tit to me, the USB will do as a source of power, and at a pinch, the drivers for the device could be used to produce a 'fake' nic, with a real nic on the USB dongle. The firewall dongle could be controlled by special packets over the USB, sort of an equivalent of a console port, it could then filter the packets and pass them to the fake nic created by the driver. It would behave (to the user) like a USB wifi dongle (in fact, building wifi into it might be a clever way to go) but would have a seperate packet inspector before the packets go anywhere near the potentially vulnerable windoze TCP stack / mac interface. *That* would work. This looks more like the crafty marketing has had more thought applied to it than to the workings device itself. Ne'er mind, nice idea, just needs thinking through properly. Dave (aka Gabbboo)