The Windows firewall has also been updated so that it blocks unauthorised outbound connections as well as incoming attacks.
Speakeasy offers its subscribers an unchanging I.P. address, which may be used for inbound and outbound connections, making this promotion easier to implement.
At the heart of the open innovation model is the recognition that today, competitive advantage often comes from inbound as well as from outbound connections.
Rather than by trying to assess where data is being sent, to try to ID suspicious outbound connections, its technology focuses on trying to determine whether network traffic is really being generated by a human or not.
However, the XP firewall only protects inbound and not outbound connections, meaning that any potential infection that somehow finds its way to a user's hard drive can proceed to take control over that machine and use it to send out attacks or participate in a botnet.
Developer Pierre-Jean Camillieri did, so he put together a tool, called Game of Angels, that scrapes public Twitter and Angel List interactions to map inbound and outbound connections between technology investors, journalists and a third demographic he's dubbed 'influencers' (e.g. analysts).
