<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>About the Shorewall Author</title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="none"> </head> <body> <p align="center"> </p> <h1 style="text-align: left;">Tom Eastep</h1> <span style="font-style: italic;">Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away.</span><br> <br> <div style="text-align: center;"> - Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br> </div> <br> Copyright © 2001-2003 Thomas M. Eastep<br> <br> <p>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “<span class="quote"><a href="GnuCopyright.htm" target="_self">GNU Free Documentation License</a></span>”.<br> </p> <p>2003-12-30<br> </p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> <p style="text-align: left;"><img border="3" src="images/Tom.jpg" alt="Aging Geek - June 2003" width="320" height="240"> </p> <div style="text-align: left;">"The Aging Geek" -- June 2003<br> </div> <p align="center"><br> </p> <ul> <li>Born 1945 in <a href="http://www.experiencewashington.com" target="_top">Washington State</a> .</li> <li>BA Mathematics from <a href="http://www.wsu.edu" target="_top">Washington State University</a> 1967</li> <li>MA Mathematics from <a href="http://www.washington.edu" target="_top">University of Washington</a> 1969</li> <li>Burroughs Corporation (now <a href="http://www.unisys.com" target="_top">Unisys</a> ) 1969 - 1980</li> <li><a href="http://www.tandem.com" target="_top">Tandem Computers, Incorporated</a> (now part of the <a href="http://www.hp.com" target="_top">The New HP</a>) 1980 - present</li> <li>Married 1969 - no children.</li> </ul> <p>I am currently a member of the design team for the next-generation operating system from the NonStop Enterprise Division of HP. </p> <p>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 <a href="http://seawall.sourceforge.net"> Seattle Firewall</a>. Expanding on what I learned from Seattle Firewall, I then designed and wrote Shorewall. </p> <p>I telework from our <a href="http://lists.shorewall.net/SeattleInTheSpring.html">home</a> in <a href="http://www.cityofshoreline.com" target="_top">Shoreline, Washington</a> where I live with my wife Tarry. </p> <p></p> <ul> </ul> <p>For information about our home network see <a href="myfiles.htm">my Shorewall Configuration files.</a></p> <p>All of our other systems are made by <a href="http://www.compaq.com" target="_top">Compaq</a> (part of the new <a href="http://www.hp.com/" target="_top">HP</a>).</p> </body> </html>