From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 12 11:12:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10631 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10626 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:12:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA01183; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:12:02 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808121812.MAA01183@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.44 (Beta) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:04:54 -0600 To: Marius Bendiksen From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: UDP port 31337 Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980812193700.0092f220@mail.scancall.no> References: <199808121735.LAA00738@lariat.lariat.org> <3.0.5.32.19980812192128.0097a2a0@mail.scancall.no> <199808121700.LAA00346@lariat.lariat.org> <3.0.5.32.19980812112915.0092ead0@mail.scancall.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If no one was listening, it wouldn't be a problem. Only an attacker who INTENDED to invade your systems would be subject to crashes due to the response. And would deserve it. --Brett At 07:37 PM 8/12/98 +0200, Marius Bendiksen wrote: >>Oh. In other words, "the wrong person" would just happen to be running the >>Back Orifice program and attempting to break into your system? Not bloody >>likely. > >Ever heard of IP spoofing? > >In any case, as I said, it's principally wrong to escalate a conflict by >retaliation. Besides which, it's illegal too. >--- >Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message