<!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="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="none"> </head> <body> <h1 style="text-align: center;">Tom Eastep</h1> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Open Source Software is not free; it comes at a very high cost.<br> <br> -</span> Wietse Venema<br> <br> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">The painful task of thinking belongs to me.<br> <br> -</span> Baron George Brydges Rodney<br> <br> <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> </div> <br> <div style="text-align: center;"> - Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br> <div style="text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently-talented fool</span><br> </div> <span style="font-style: italic;"><br> </span> <div style="text-align: center;"> - Anonymous<br> <br> Copyright © 2001-2007 Thomas M. Eastep<br> <br> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <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>2007-01-29<br> </p> <hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="images/p1000221-600-800.jpg"><img src="images/p1000221-600-800.jpg" alt="Tom, his dog, and his new car - May 2006" style="border: 3px solid ; width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a></p> <div style="text-align: center;"> "Tom, his dog Tipper, and his new car" -- May 2006<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>Tandem Computers, Incorporated (now part of <a href="http://www.hp.com" target="_top">Hewlett-Packard</a>) 1980 - present</li> <li>Married 1969 - no children.</li> </ul> <p>I am currently an architect in the Open System Services development group within the NonStop Enterprise Division of HP.<br> </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>For information about our home network see <a href="XenMyWay-Routed.html">my Shorewall Configuration files.</a></p> </div> </body> </html>