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 Now here's an interesting piece of hardware, as well as an interesting twist on network security. Israeli startup Yoggie Security Systems have managed to shoehorn an entire 520mhz Intel PXA270 computer system running Linux 2.6 and a suite of firewall and security applications........onto a USB key. It intercepts traffic of any kind (dialup, lan, GPRS, WiFi) on the host PC below the protocol layer, examines it, then passes it back along seamlessly to the host PC, via a USB 2.0 connection. LinuxDevices reports...Yoggie Security Systems has squeezed a complete hardware firewall for Windows systems into a USB key sized form-factor. The "Yoggie Pico" runs Linux 2.6 along with 13 security applications on a 520MHz PXA270, a powerful Intel processor popular in smartphones and other high-end consumer devices. The Yoggie Pico is a spectacularly miniaturized version of the company's original Yoggie Gatekeeper product (pictured at left), which shipped nine months ago and is also based on the Intel PXA270 processor. Both products aim to offload firewall functions to a separate device, in order to increase security and performance of the host PC, and save users from confusing security-related pop-up messages. CEO Schlomo Touboul explains, "Internet security software running on Windows takes a lot of time to boot, and uses a lot of CPU to scan. It gets fatter and fatter with every update, and as a result, the Windows machine gets slower and slower. The idea of Yoggie is, 'Let's have a second computer, and screen traffic before it reaches the PC.'" Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           
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