were most people asked to imagine a wall of fire they might think of the pyrot
teic seen on any First Rate metal band
stage but unfortunately firewall Protection Services aren't quite as awe
inspiring as all that that's not to imply though that they aren't terribly
important or that meltdowns caused by failing to ensure proper firewall
protections can't be as damaging as the direct blast of a flamethrower firewalls
adopt their name and function directly from physical structure stres that stand
between danger often fire and fragile stuff like your face and computer
firewalls actually do bear some similarity to their RL counterparts they
work to protect users and their information not from thermal energy but
instead from the scum and villainy which occupy The Wretched hives of the open
internet generally speaking there are two layers of firewall protection which
operate in conjunction with both hard and software to carry out a given set of
rules Hardware firewall Solutions are automatically built into to the routers
that most of us are using today these work by tagging all outgoing traffic
from a private Network like the one in our home with a specific network ID that
is then also attached to any corresponding incoming traffic this
allows the router to determine the origin of incoming packets blocking any
transfers which weren't initiated from behind the firewall it also prevents
files from being downloaded without a user's knowledge and stops firststep
intrusions known as port scan attacks letting us feel feel safe that the
update for our favorite new game is what it says and not some piece of spyware
that will constantly spam us with adverts for pills that improve performance I'm not sure where I got the
idea I need those from software-based protections function by monitoring the
Integrity of flowing traffic processes through variables such as incoming and
destination IP addresses transfer times or download sizes and killing
connections that don't meet expectations these are advantageous because they
monitor outgoing traffic as well as incoming blocking programs such as IP
spoofing ones from attacking individual machines once they've infiltrated a
network these are what allow us to transfer files between our friends
without worrying that a third party has attached something along the way or feel
safe when constantly transferring packets during things such as an online
gaming session knowing that any unapproved packets will be detected by
the firewall in fact often times the largescale data thefts we hear about
come as a result of some entity which has gone and painted a giant Target on
their back by not implementing strong enough active firewall protection
allowing unwanted information transfers to remain disguised as authentic ones so
while in theory firewall protections work as seamlessly as their physical
predecessors in practice these types of solutions can require a little bit more
attention than your average W made of brick pretty well anyone who has ever
installed a new game or component has
run into that annoying Windows prompt asking them if they're really sure they
wish to connect and update the software which won't even be enough if your
router doesn't automatically get configured in the process and they can be used for things like Regional
information censorship as well but while they're not all good news no matter how
arbitrary a warning message might seem or how annoying its accompanying beep is
these grievances are nothing compared to the sound your customers and partners
will make when all of their credit cards and other information has been stolen
why did they put a that logo behind me speaking of logos let's swap that out
fractal Josh has decided to mercifully
spare me this week all I have to do this
time is tell you guys about their Sleek clean Scandinavian design their
excellent cases power supplies and cooling products and how you can check
those out at fractal dasd design.com
that's all I have to say but actually there's another thing I have to say that
was a total lie he's put me through a lot over the last 10 months and
apparently there's going to be a clip show or something like that so it's not
actually really any less embarrassing if I don't have to do those things again if
I'm showing them to you guys again but don't worry too much about that the point is Josh wants you to let fractal
design know what you thought of this whole humiliate Linus promotion on their
Facebook page the should they bring these spots back what do you want to see
from them in the future so that's pretty much it there's
a link in the video description thanks for watching this episode as fast as
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