About the Shorewall Author

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

In the Internet age, ignorance is a fatal handycap only when the ignorant belief that their cure is the responsibility of others

-Tom Eastep

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

- Holmes to Watson, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", Arthur Conan Doyle

Copyright © 2001-2008 Thomas M. Eastep

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2008-12-16

"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.