Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:04:54 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UDP port 31337 Message-ID: <199808121812.MAA01183@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980812193700.0092f220@mail.scancall.no> References: <199808121735.LAA00738@lariat.lariat.org> <3.0.5.32.19980812192128.0097a2a0@mail.scancall.no> <199808121700.LAA00346@lariat.lariat.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980812225354.21008E-100000@aniwa.sky> <3.0.5.32.19980812112915.0092ead0@mail.scancall.no>
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If no one was listening, it wouldn't be a problem. Only an attacker who INTENDED to invade your systems would be subject to crashes due to the response. And would deserve it. --Brett At 07:37 PM 8/12/98 +0200, Marius Bendiksen wrote: >>Oh. In other words, "the wrong person" would just happen to be running the >>Back Orifice program and attempting to break into your system? Not bloody >>likely. > >Ever heard of IP spoofing? > >In any case, as I said, it's principally wrong to escalate a conflict by >retaliation. Besides which, it's illegal too. >--- >Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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