tomw wrote:I don't have answers to all of your questions but I believe that updates can be pushed out to the firewalls remotely.
Also, all of the filtering is done by a common filtering engine used Church wide (from what I have been told). However there are different "usage" levels. So someone who makes policies has to decide that CCNs and local units should have the same level.
Thanks, this gives some helpful insights.
But I do wonder about the statement about deciding if "CCNs and local units should have the same level." Since the announcement was made that administrative computers can connect to FHC CCNs, and the vast majority of CCNs are in FHCs that are in some sort of building housing local units, I fail to see the distinction. Filtering for FHC CCNs
is the filtering for a large number of local units.
We have a whole bunch of administrative computers in local units connecting to FHC CCNs under the authority of the
11 Feb 2008 letter. We also have a growing set of administrative computer in local units with Internet connections installed under the authority of the
29 Feb 2008 and
26 Mar 2008 letters. Why would local units that happen to be in a building with a FHC have much broader access than those in a building with a stake-installed Internet connection using the Church-managed firewall?