Re: ICMP (Ping)

[Tim Greer <chatmaster () charter net>]

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:53, gregh wrote:
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Tim Greer
> To: gregh
> Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 5:58 AM
> Subject: Re: ICMP (Ping)
>
> On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 06:15, gregh wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: Tim Greer 
> > > To: SMiller () unimin com
> > > Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
> > > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 8:52 AM
> > > Subject: RE: ICMP (Ping)
> >
> >
> > > > Fun stuff... what some people seem to fail to understand, is
> that it's
> > > unlikely someone's going to randomly probe for IP's to just
> >  randomly
> > > > attack.  
> >
> > > Sorry but script kiddies do that all the time.
> >
> >
> > And how is that going to help?  They will randomly attack it anyway.
>
> How it helps is that it corrects an error, quite obviously.

WTF?  Corrects an "error"?  *What* 'error'? :-)

>  If someone TRULY believes that "it is unlikely someone's going to
> randomly probe for IP's to just randomly attack" then they need to be
> told the truth which is that script kiddies DO randomly probe and
> randomly attack ALL the time.


That's actually what I said myself.

>  The good news is that even ZA will keep script kiddies out so long as
> you haven't got a backdoor installed that bypasses it.

And that your system is secure--it's not just backdoors that are the
issue.

> Greg.
>  
> PS - sorry if this email looks confusing quoting style. Testing a
> theory about OE's ability to send plain text to the list.

Please, please don't post in HTML/fonts.
-- 
Tim Greer <chatmaster () charter net>


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