> I guess I'm baffled as to why a firewall needs to have an outgoing > blacklist. > Simple scenario - say I use p2p-type program (like azureus or something) or, worse still, have a rogue code/process/program on my machine (that I know nothing of) which tries to communicate from my machine to IP addresses which are banned (i.e. try to "call home") - in that case I would need these packets to be dropped without question.
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