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I am thinking that a custom OpenBSD firewall with some good logging and some counter measures for specific monitoring software might not be a bad idea.

This story is just getting more wrong with each article.

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And tcpdump, too.

Anyway, if you're looking to build that custom OpenBSD firewall / gateway, might I recommend the Alix 2d3 board. It is so choice:

http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm

A good idea if the state ever hands you a laptop you must use. Then again, this was really in the students' faces, thanks to Apple wiring the camera and its LED together.

I think that if a state ever starts mandating laptops, they'll probably be mandating firewalls too.

I don't think they can (in the US, at least, at least for now) mandate "no firewalls" at your home. Ignoring that the state of the art as deployed (Windows) makes that impractical.

I don't think we're even close to "only government approved firewalls at your home".

If I was Apple PR, I would be pretty pissed some school said the blinking light was a "glitch" in the macbook.

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