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Re: using "reserved" IPv6 space


From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:24:18 -0500

On 7/15/12, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf () dessus com> wrote:
Ifconfig does not work on Windows.

Who needs ifconfig with windows?
any user who can open a cmd session can run IPCONFIG /ALL

The same can be queried remotely using WMI
Select * From Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration  WHERE IPEnabled=true

Are you saying that there are other operating systems brain-dead enough to
just run any old arbitrary code from untrusted media?

That depends... what do you mean by untrusted media?
Many OSes, even certain versions of Linux that support Firewire can be
coerced into running arbitrary code, by plugging in a malicious
firewire device,  unless there is an IOMMU or other measures
protecting against malicious memory access when a DMA is requested

Various hardware devices, and drivers have vulnerabilities, even
without 'autoplay'.
And some *ix distros do support 'autoplay-like' functionality.


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