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RE: Worms versus Bots
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:20:05 -0700
On Thu, 6 May 2004 Michael.Dillon () radianz com wrote:connectivity, not even wireless. But it does have an internal 100baseTx Ethernet port that uses a non-standard connector. And it also includes a router unit running off the same power supply as the PC but otherwise completely independent.Urg, a horrible idea. Why not just make the software on the host secure?
Because then you would have to limit the ability to modify the software to only those trusted not to affect network security. It's the same answer as the answer to "why not run everything as root"? DS
Current thread:
- Re: Worms versus Bots, (continued)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Steven M. Bellovin (May 04)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (May 04)
- Re: Worms versus Bots chuck goolsbee (May 04)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Paul Jakma (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Matthew Crocker (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Jeff McAdams (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Jeff Workman (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Valdis . Kletnieks (May 05)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Michael . Dillon (May 06)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Paul Jakma (May 06)
- RE: Worms versus Bots David Schwartz (May 06)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Petri Helenius (May 06)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Chris Woodfield (May 11)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Valdis . Kletnieks (May 11)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Chris Woodfield (May 11)
- RE: Worms versus Bots Jonathan M. Slivko (May 11)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Chris Woodfield (May 11)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Paul Jakma (May 13)
- Re: Worms versus Bots Rick Ernst (May 11)