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From: "Charles C. Figueiredo" <marxx@apocalypse.superlink.net>
To: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
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Subject: Re: freebsd + synfloods + ip spoofing 
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On Wed, 22 May 1996, Brett L. Hawn wrote:

> On Wed, 22 May 1996, Charles C. Figueiredo wrote:
> 
> > 	You may be right, but other implementations don't randomize on every 
> > connection either. FreeBSD, at the moment, just has what other 
> > implementations have wrong.
> > 
> 
> So we're to say 'well, they're wrong so its ok for us to be' ? I think not
> 
> Brett
> 
> 
	Of course not! The only point I was touching on, is the fact that 
you were wrong in making FreeBSD's implementation seem archaic and 
extremely insecure in comparison to others. Which it isn't.

Marxx