+Report on Lok Technologies and its founder Simon Lok, a 26-year-old with three +Masters degrees and most of a PhD. Lok's current product is a box for +Wireless ISPs (WISPs) that includes registration, administration, +routing/firewall, and more. +Of course the "Airlok" is based on OpenBSD. +J. Russ Grant, technical manager at American Airlines, likes the Airlok: +
because it takes a "tough love" approach; when it spots a virus +on a computer, it automatically blocks that machine, "blackholing" the user, +and notifies Grant... "The Airlok has the best firewall I have ever seen," +says Grant, who believes the product could even change the Web itself. +"Imagine if Comcast or other ISPs started using Airloks. +If someone got a virus, the system would just shut that person down +before it could spread. This could make hackers obsolete." ++Maybe a bit of hyperbole, but the product does look good, and serves +as an example of what you can do with OpenBSD as a base. +
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