Research - Valid Data Gathering vs. Annoying Other

Fri Aug 6 20:34:57 UTC 2004

Robert Bonomi wrote:

>> <>*HOW* is one supposed to tell a 'benign' probe from a 'hostile' one,
>> when it is addressed to a machine that doesn't exist, or to a 'service'
>> that doesn't exist on an existant machine?
>>
>> With all the 'overtly hostile' traffic out there, why on earth would 
>> anyone
>> consider that, with regard to 'unexpected'/'abnormal' traffic, there 
>> should
>> be _any_ 'expectation of innocence'?
>

Easy, they need to set the evil bit to 0
;)

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