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Re: Hackers Out of Business?
From: tjk () nostromo eeap cwru edu (Timothy J. Kordas)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 21:58:15 -0400 (EDT)
This all sounds like hyped up free software to me. Anyone disagree? -MikeI disagree. It is security that strikes back! Now we all can sleep at nite now that someone has finally figured out security and implemented it correctly. 8-) I grabbed their technical FAQ from ftp.sctc.com. Rather amusing. They talk about how they deal with UDP packets and they say,'We dont allow any services that UDP packets.'. Well, Gee, I guess sidewinder isnt going to work well in a client-server based setup. But the most amusing part of
I too went and got their hokey little "technical FAQ" (a marketing pamphlet with nice little pictures of bombs). my first reaction to all of this kind a dreck is "well sure it'll be secure if you take out all of the services."... that is EXACTLY what they've done. yeah the system is on the net, but why ?...you can't *DO* anything. -Tim kordas () lanl gov -- Timothy J. Kordas | tjk () nostromo eeap cwru edu Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics | Case Western Reserve University | PGP public key available Cleveland, Ohio 44106 | via finger
Current thread:
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? Michael Neuman (Oct 10)
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? Christopher Klaus (Oct 10)
- Strange stuff Craig Presson (Oct 10)
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? Timothy J. Kordas (Oct 10)
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? Doug Siebert (Oct 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? jeromie (Oct 11)
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? Michael Neuman (Oct 14)
- RE: Hackers Out of Business? jeromie (Oct 13)
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? Andrew Molitor (Oct 14)
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? jeromie (Oct 14)
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? J. Adams (Oct 15)
- Re: Hackers Out of Business? Christopher Klaus (Oct 10)