iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

Concerned that MS Office is sending information out about your use of Office to other users on your local network? It’s your computer, block it!

You can stop the server it sets up on port 2222 by adding a deny command to your firewall manually. Unfortunately this will stop your System Preferences Firewall options from working, as once it sees entries it didn’t make it will alert you that it can no longer configure your firewall. You may have to read up on the ipfw command in the future.

I’ve given you the information, it’s up to you to decide how you’ll use it.

From your terminal run this command:

sudo ipfw add deny udp from any to any 2222 via en0

if you are concerned about an extra WiFi connection replace en0 with en1.

I was at the OPAS conference at the Rogers Campus in Toronto for most of this week. The conference was OK, but I by the measures of what new did I learn and what change was affected by the conference it does not measure well.

On Thursday before I left to go back down to St. Catharines I went the the TechTV Meetup at No Regrets Restaurant. It was really cool to see all those people there and all of the geek celebrities took time to talk to whomever was interested.

I was particularly keen to meet Leo Leport because I think that he’s genuinely motivated to just help people do more with their computers and not be at the mercy of them. He had varied an interesting conversations with those who came to gush, challenge and those who came from places like Detroit! I don’t think he even got a chance to eat! When ever I’m trying to explain technology to others I try to use Leo as a roll model.

Anyway, my photos are on flickr and I’m sure you can find other’s there too.