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Re: Research - Valid Data Gathering vs. Annoying Other

  • From: Matt Hess
  • Date: Fri Aug 06 16:37:24 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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