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Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy () knowtion net>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:45:11 +0100
Sean Donelan wrote:
Uhm, you are also aware that if the attacker can spoof the kiss-o'-death packets; the same attacker could spoof all sorts of other packets including the time protocol packets to change the clock on your computer.
"Yes but"... there is a strong likelyhood that less paranoid protocol implementors (not necessarily designers, just those coding stuff from spec) could simplify their lives and not check all the right conditions required to filter unwanted stuff. Bye bye farm. Oh, this has happened already ? Now, where is that "Windows Update" icon again ... Peter
Current thread:
- Re: Security v. Privacy (was 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)