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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Tue, 21 May 1996 07:21:14 -0500 (CDT), "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> said:

> For kicks some time ago I built a spoofer and I can tell you this much,
> creating at least a pseudo-random number generator for sequencing will stop
> a large # of the spoofers.

Which is why this was introduced in FreeBSD many months ago.

-GAWollman

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