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Re: how to protect name servers against cache corruption


From: Michael Dillon <michael () priori net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:15:03 -0700

At 3:54 AM -0400 7/31/97, Alexander O. Yuriev wrote:
a. not talk publicly about this lest the cracker community learn too much

Sure. Now how do you propose to make sure that only good guys know about
bad things? Mathematically it is impossible. It is a set theory

I don't propose to "make sure" that only good guys know, I just suggest
that it is better to not spread the info publicly when you don't know who
is listening in. Why make the bad guys job easier?



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