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RE: Stealth Blocking
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 16:54:29 -0700
In the PURE war, one ONLY shoots confirmed bad-guys and has ZERO collateral damage.
So if someone has a machine gun and is firing randomly, you don't act to stop him until he happens to hit someone? That's madness. I don't advocate random scanning, as it is unethical to probe random people for vulnerability. However, once you know there is in fact an open relay, you are entirely justified in blocking it. And if you have legitimate reason to suspect a site is an open relay, you are entirely justified in probing it to see whether or not it is. If your neighbor is aiming a gun at you, you are justified in checking to see if it's loaded. But if the gun is in his safe, you are not justified in breaking in to check it. DS
Current thread:
- Why are you all still here? (Was Re: Stealth Blocking), (continued)
- Why are you all still here? (Was Re: Stealth Blocking) mike (May 24)
- Re: Why are you all still here? (Was Re: Stealth Blocking) Mitch Halmu (May 24)
- finding POPs Miles Fidelman (May 23)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Shawn McMahon (May 23)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Adam Rothschild (May 23)
- RE: Stealth Blocking Roeland Meyer (May 23)
- RE: Stealth Blocking David Schwartz (May 23)
- Re: Stealth Blocking Valdis . Kletnieks (May 24)
- Re: Stealth Blocking J.D. Falk (May 23)
- RE: Stealth Blocking David Schwartz (May 23)
- RE: Stealth Blocking Roeland Meyer (May 23)
- RE: Stealth Blocking David Schwartz (May 23)
- RE: Stealth Blocking jlewis (May 23)
- RE: Stealth Blocking David Schwartz (May 24)
- Scanning (was Re: Stealth Blocking) William Allen Simpson (May 24)
- Re: Scanning (was Re: Stealth Blocking) Joseph T. Klein (May 24)
- Re: Scanning (was Re: Stealth Blocking) Paul Vixie (May 24)
- Re: Scanning (was Re: Stealth Blocking) Mitch Halmu (May 24)
- Re: Scanning (was Re: Stealth Blocking) Greg A. Woods (May 24)
- Re: Scanning (was Re: Stealth Blocking) Christopher A. Woodfield (May 26)
- Re: Scanning (was Re: Stealth Blocking) Greg A. Woods (May 26)
- Re: Scanning (was Re: Stealth Blocking) William Allen Simpson (May 26)