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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 10:59:00 -0500
From:      Drew Raines <drew-dated-1022687941.740e4b@rain3s.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: internal hosts in email
Message-ID:  <20020515155900.GA16671@williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3CE2811F.9325CAA7@centtech.com>
References:  <3CE2702A.A67642FE@centtech.com> <20020515150303.GU16671@williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu> <3CE27B5F.EB6D7F4F@centtech.com> <20020515152446.GW16671@williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu> <3CE2811F.9325CAA7@centtech.com>

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Eric Anderson wrote:
>
> Security is something that takes place throughout the network, not
> just on the firewall (firewalls in my case).  Are you saying it's
> perfectly safe to bleed internal host information out to the world?
> What about simply removing the IP addresses, and leaving the
> hostnames in?  

You're missing the forest for the trees.

Why hide information which is only useful once your firewall is
compromised?  Why hide information which is trivially learned once
your firewall is compromised?  Why hide relatively harmless infor-
mation which could be useful?

Use your energy on something more productive.

-- 
Drew



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