Comments on: Atelier Web Firewall Tester http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/27/atelier-web-firewall-tester/ A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:53:42 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brad Clarkston http://www.ghacks.net/2005/11/27/atelier-web-firewall-tester/#comment-349 Brad Clarkston Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:37:32 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=184#comment-349 This is a worthless test, of course most firewalls will fail as they are designed to stop *incoming* traffic not *outgoing* traffic. To make matters worse the utility made me open Firefox just to run half of the tests. Of course it's going to be able to get through the firewall as I requested the test have outbound access via port 80 do to the browser requirment. This is a worthless test, of course most firewalls will fail as they are designed to stop *incoming* traffic not *outgoing* traffic.

To make matters worse the utility made me open Firefox just to run half of the tests. Of course it’s going to be able to get through the firewall as I requested the test have outbound access via port 80 do to the browser requirment.

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