Tom Eastep

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2003-12-30

• 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 the The New HP) 1980 - present
• Married 1969 - no children.

I am currently a member of the design team for the next-generation operating system from 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.

All of our other systems are made by Compaq (part of the new HP).