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Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy () knowtion net>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:40:04 +0100
E.B. Dreger wrote:
HTTP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient checking. Thus HTTP is a bad idea. SMTP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient checking. Thus SMTP is a bad idea. SNMP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient checking. Thus SNMP is a bad idea. Come to think of it, IP stacks have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient checking. IP is a bad idea, too.
No, please do not twist my words; I referrred to poor implementations of good ideas. Nowhere did I say that the protocol is bad as a result of poor implementations. Peter
Current thread:
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?, (continued)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Robert Boyle (Oct 05)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 05)
- Kiss-o'-death packets? Sean Donelan (Oct 05)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Paul (Oct 05)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Peter Galbavy (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Sean Donelan (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Peter Galbavy (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? E.B. Dreger (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? Peter Galbavy (Oct 06)
- Re: Kiss-o'-death packets? E.B. Dreger (Oct 06)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Suresh Ramasubramanian (Oct 05)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Sean Donelan (Oct 03)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Erik-Jan Bos (Oct 03)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Daniel Karrenberg (Oct 03)
- RE: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? John Renwick (Oct 03)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Jack Bates (Oct 03)
- Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers? Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 09)