Re: Sony: No firewall and no patches

[Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>]

On Wed, 11 May 2011, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

> So the outbound stateful checking of server response traffic is moot,
> and simply constitutes a stateful DDoS chokepoint which makes it trivial
> for an attacker to take down the server in question by filling up the
> state-tables of said firewall with well-formed,
> programatically-generated traffic.

<irony>
Yup. We all know servers handle traffic without any of those
pesky state-tables that can be filled up with well-formed,
programatically-generated traffic.
</irony>

-- 
Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak                          / Jeremiah 9:21        \
"For death is come up into our MS Windows(tm)..." \ 21st century edition /


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