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firewall machine
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n. A dedicated gateway machine with special security precautions on it, used
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to service outside network connections and dial-in lines. The idea is to
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protect a cluster of more loosely administered machines hidden behind it
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from cracker s. The typical firewall is an inexpensive micro-based Unix box
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kept clean of critical data, with a bunch of modems and public network ports
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on it but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the
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cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, callback,
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and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity
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patterns. Syn. flytrap , Venus flytrap. See also wild side. [When first
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coined in the mid-1980s this term was pure jargon.
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