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Back in 2002 and 2003 I used to work for a cable modem provider in the Kingwood, Texas area. The dispatcher gave me a service order to go out to these peoples houses to see why they could not get on the internet.
When I arrived, the elderly couple showed me where the cable modem was at. They had a computer acting as a firewall. There was no hardrive, no CD rom, no nothing but a mother board, floppy drive and 2 network cards.
Ok, so I had to ask, "who set this up for you?" The couple told me their grandson installed some kind of Linux firewall after they were raided by the FBI. The story got a little deeper. These people were in their 60's or 70's and they were raided by the FBI??
It seems that someone hacked their computer and turned it into an FTP server. The stuff that was being hosted was nude pictures of children. The local sheriffs department and the FBI raided their house thinking the elderly couple was the ones that set the server up.
After the arrest warrants were served, computer seized and everyone was brought "down town" it was clear that neither person had the knowledge of how to set up an FTP server. They did not even know what FTP meant.
They laughed about the incident, but I did not find it too funny. Anyway, something was wrong with the firewall system, so I told them to have their grandson check things out.
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