State Super-DMCA Too True

McBurnett, Jim jmcburnett at msmgmt.com
Sun Mar 30 22:18:42 UTC 2003


maybe I should have said Stateful inspection..
IE inspection of SMTP whereas it limits the commands
that are allowed and makes protocol adjustments.

thanks,
J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: E.B. Dreger [mailto:eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 5:11 PM
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> Subject: RE: State Super-DMCA Too True 
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> JM> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:34:28 -0500
> JM> From: "McBurnett, Jim"
> 
> 
> JM> NAT-- HMMM - In my eyes that is a security precaution for the
> JM> ignorant.. Think of this: Joe user goes to Wally World, or
> JM> Staples and get's a Linksys BEFSR11 cable/dsl router. He adds
> JM> NAT, and walla, his computer is no longer wide open to the
> JM> world... Albeit not a stateful firewall, it is much more
> 
> Actually, it _is_ stateful.  It tracks state so it knows what
> inbound traffic is directed to what IP:port on the inside, or
> dropped if no match is found.
> 
> Run 1:1 NAT and see how secure that is.  Run a "public" IP
> address with stateful rules that drop inbound traffic unless
> outbound traffic happened "recently".  Compare.
> 
> NAT's "security" is a by-product of state that is necessary to
> achieve 1:N mapping.
> 
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