Firewall

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Firewall may refer to:

• Firewall (computing), a technological barrier designed to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between computer networks or hosts
• Firewall (construction), a barrier inside a building, designed to limit the spread of fire, heat and structural collapse
• Firewall (engine), the part of a vehicle that separates the engine compartment from the rest of the vehicle
• Firewall (physics), a hypothetical phenomenon where a freely falling observer spontaneously burns up at the horizon of a black hole

People

• Firewall, the alias of Lange (musician) (born 1974)

Arts, entertainment, and media

See also

• The Alberta Agenda, also known as the Alberta Firewall, a political proposal for the Canadian province
• Anonymous web browsing, browsing the World Wide Web while hiding the user's IP address and any other personally identifiable information from the websites that one is visiting
• firewalld, a firewall management tool for Linux operating systems
• Great Firewall, China's internet censorship firewall
• Chinese wall, a zone of non-communication between distinct sections of a business, in order to prevent conflicts of interest
• Personal firewall, a very popular form of firewall designed to protect personal computers
• Wall of Fire (disambiguation)