Re: How to track a PC anywhere it connects to the Net

[Andreas Ericsson <ae () op5 se>]

Bob Fillmore wrote:
> This might be an interesting feature for nmap:
>   http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,2000061744,39183346,00.htm

I'm not so sure. nmap would need a backtrack database of hardware 
fingerprints stored to be able to use the technique. The paper also 
doesn't mention if a proper ntp implementation (not sntp) in any way 
prevents such identification although it's reasonably safe to assume 
that it does.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson () op5 se
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