# Tom Eastep

Open Source Software is not free; it comes at a very high cost.
- Wietse Venema
The painful task of thinking belongs to me.
- Baron George Brydges Rodney
Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently-talented fool
- Anonymous
Copyright © 2001-2007 Thomas M. Eastep

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2007-01-29

"Tom, his dog Tipper, and his new car" -- May 2006

- Born 1945 in Washington State .
- BA Mathematics from Washington State University 1967
- MA Mathematics from University of Washington 1969
- Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys ) 1969 - 1980
- Tandem Computers, Incorporated (now part of Hewlett-Packard) 1980 - present
- Married 1969 - no children.

I am currently an architect in the Open System Services development group within the NonStop Enterprise Division of HP.

I became interested in Internet Security when I established a home office in 1999 and had DSL service installed in our home. I investigated ipchains and developed the scripts which are now collectively known as Seattle Firewall. Expanding on what I learned from Seattle Firewall, I then designed and wrote Shorewall.

I telework from our home in Shoreline, Washington where I live with my wife Tarry.

For information about our home network see my Shorewall Configuration files.