Re: sniffer/promisc detector

[Brett Watson <brett () the-watsons org>]

> > i wish you were right.  i wish you were even close to right.  but we've
> been
> > attacked many times over the years by some extremely smart adolescent
> > psychopaths -- where adolescence is a state of mind in this case, rather
> > than of years -- and i wish very much that they would either stop being
> > so smart, or stop being so psychotic, or stop being so adolescent.
>
> Hmm.
>
> It depends of, what is _attack_. For example, if I have old, unpatched sshd
> daemon (which is easy to hack), but
> run it at port 30022, how long do I need to expose it on Internet to be
> hacked? (Answer - you will never be hacked, if
> you use nonstandard port, except if you attracks someone by name, such as
> _SSH-DAEMOn.Rich-Bank-Of-America.Com_.

Uhm, that would be wrong.  This is simply "security through obscurity".

Go grab nessus (www.nessus.org), modify the code a bit, and I guarantee you
that your ssh daemon running on a non-standard port can still be found,
identified, and exploited. Trivial.

-b