An Israeli company announced one firewall complete, established in the hardware, conditioned in a device USB. The device intercepts the net traffic before it arrives at the operational system. The site Linux Devices brings a substance describing the device. According to site, it if calls Yoggie Pico and is a little bigger that a common tocador of MP3. Manufactured for the Yoggie Security Systems, the system is based on kernel 2,6 of the Debian Linux and on more 13 applicatory ones of security. To configure and to monitor firewall it has a sufficiently intuitiva graphical interface. The great advantage of the Yoggie Pico is that, being one firewall based in the hardware, is more difficult of being attacked and contouring for aggressors. Moreover, firewalls in the hardware does not demand to be able of processing of the computer, therefore all the filtering is made external. Firewalls based in software is passíveis of being deceived by horses of Troy especially prepared e, by being being executed together with the operational system, diminishes the performance of the computer. The Yoggie Pico kidnaps all the packages entering and leaving the net plate and it filters them. Of this form no suspicious package arrives at the operational system without before passing for firewall. The equipment costs US$ 180 and will have to be launched in June. She is necessary to install a small program in the operational system of the PC so that this recognizes firewall. Although to be based on the Linux, for the time being it has drivers only for Windows XP and Sight. Drivers for Linux and Mac the X must be available soon. The Yoggie Pico deserved an article in the site of magazine PC Magazine and in the site of TechShout technology. The article in the site Linux Devices, with more details technician and diagrams explaining the functioning of firewall, can be read in English in the http://dtmurl.com/als shortcut. The Yoggie Pico can be acquired by the site www.yoggie.com for US$ 199, about R$ 400.
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