hmm googling turns up articles which suggest that Icarus mostly blocks people's legitimate internet use and some p2p traffic (which could also be legitimate internet use e.g. bittorrent to get Fedora ISOs.) and disables internet access which students have actually paid for themselves. Probably Icarus should be illegal.

This doesn't look like it compares with a system which dynamically detects compromised hosts and provides intelligient isolation. Perhaps a little bit of an explanation why Icarus is a good thing might help.


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