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<title>About the Shorewall Author</title>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Tom Eastep</h1>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Open Source Software is not free; it
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comes
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at a very high cost.<br>
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-</span> Wietse Venema<br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The painful task of thinking belongs
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to
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me.<br>
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<br>
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-</span> Baron George Brydges Rodney<br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Perfection in design is achieved not
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when
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there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to
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take
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away.</span><br>
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Nothing
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is foolproof to a
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sufficiently-talented fool</span><br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><br>
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</span>
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<div style="text-align: center;">- Anonymous<br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">In the Internet age, ignorance is a
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fatal handycap only when the ignorant belief that their cure is the
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responsibility of others<br>
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<br>
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</span>-Tom Eastep<br>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Still, it is an error to argue in
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front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to
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fit your theories.<br>
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<br>
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</span>- Holmes to Watson, "<span style="font-style: italic;">The
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Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", </span>Arthur Conan Doyle<br>
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<br>
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Copyright © 2001-2008 Thomas M. Eastep<br>
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<p>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
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any
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later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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Invariant
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Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of
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the
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license is included in the section entitled “<span class="quote"><a
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href="GnuCopyright.htm" target="_self">GNU Free Documentation
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License</a></span>”.<br>
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<p>2008-12-16<br>
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alt="Tom, his dog, and his new car - May 2006"
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"Tom, his dog Tipper, and his new car" -- May 2006<br>
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<p align="center"><br>
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</p>
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<li>Born 1945 in <a href="http://www.experiencewashington.com"
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target="_top">Washington State</a> .</li>
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<li>BA Mathematics from <a href="http://www.wsu.edu" target="_top">Washington
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State University</a> 1967</li>
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<li>MA Mathematics from <a href="http://www.washington.edu"
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target="_top">University of Washington</a> 1969</li>
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<li>Burroughs Corporation (now <a href="http://www.unisys.com"
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target="_top">Unisys</a> ) 1969 - 1980</li>
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<li>Tandem Computers, Incorporated (now part of <a
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href="http://www.hp.com" target="_top">Hewlett-Packard</a>) 1980 -
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present</li>
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<li>Married 1969 - no children.</li>
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<p>I am currently an architect in the Open System Services development
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group
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within the NonStop Enterprise Division of HP.<br>
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</p>
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<p>I became interested in Internet Security when I established a home
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office
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in 1999 and had DSL service installed in our home. I investigated
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ipchains
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and developed the scripts which are now collectively known as <a
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href="http://seawall.sourceforge.net">Seattle Firewall</a>. Expanding
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on what
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I learned from Seattle Firewall, I then designed and wrote Shorewall.</p>
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<p>I telework from our <a
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href="http://lists.shorewall.net/SeattleInTheSpring.html">home</a>
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in <a href="http://www.cityofshoreline.com" target="_top">Shoreline,
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Washington</a>
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where I live with my wife Tarry. </p>
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<p>For information about our home network see <a
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href="XenMyWay-Routed.html">my Shorewall Configuration files.</a></p>
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