[alb@quandary.org: Re: [Courses] [Security] Firewall theory -- UDP and nameservers]

[Katie Bechtold]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:33:06AM -0500, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:14:35PM +0000, hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
> > I gather 'firewall' is a military term originally, too. 
> I don't think it is.  I believe it's a car engine term.  The firewall is
> there to stop (or delay) engine fires from getting into the cabin, I think.

At the risk of steering this firewall discussion *totally* off-topic
:) , I'll note that I went and looked up "firewall" in
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, and it says the term dates
from 1759.  It gives the computer firewall definition along with a
more generic one: "a wall constructed to prevent the spread of
fire."  So the term seems to predate automobiles.

-- 
Katie Bechtold
http://www.katie-and-rob.org/katie/

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