Re:And the stationwagon bypasses the firewall too (Score 1)

Not necessarily. They actually address this in the article:

There are some challenges about how to secure this. The simple strategy is to say, "Look, if you were FTP'ing from this computer, it would be outside your firewall. So I'll mail it to you, and then you plant it outside your firewall, but LAN-connected, so that you're not paying the phone bill."

Of course the converse is available as well:

That's one strategy. The other strategy is to say, "I trust Dave. Dave sent me this computer."

BTW, is reading the article and spell checking your post synonymous with karma whoring?

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