LXer: Hacker John 'Kanen' Flowers presents a cheap open alternative for networksecuri
 

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We live in a new world. We can change things through technology. We can change things through social interaction. I write this entry so you have some idea of where things are with me and with kane|box. I also write this so you know where my head is at and (hopefully) realize I have not gone raving mad. You see, kane|box is not like other products or technologies or companies. It is open source software. It is inexpensive, custom, bad-guy-ass-kicking hardware. It is the result of 20+ years of me thinking about network security problems and how to solve them. It is a big, fat, fiery comet raining down from the sky and smashing into the network security space, knocking everyone else on their collective fat, lazy asses. It is cheaper than any "similar" solution, by tens of thousands of dollars. It does things that it takes 10 other products combined to do -- and it does those things better and faster. In other words, I am starting a revolution.

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