Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 01:02:33 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>, freebsd-core@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP Filtering to www.freebsd.org Message-ID: <199612250902.BAA02033@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Dec 1996 09:56:41 %2B0100." <729.851504201@critter.tfs.com>
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>I did, after conferring with Jordan, to prevent a denial-of-service >attack that theo threathen us with. [I had thought that Jordan had added it, but I apparantly mis-understood him when he told me about ita month ago...but this doesn't matter] >The reason it was done this way was exactly that it >didn't< prevent >email from flowing. It should be pointed out that Theo has theatened to sick his cracker friends onto to freefall and other machines to somehow "prove" that FreeBSD was insecure (with the apparant implication that OpenBSD IS secure). He has "apparantly" claimed that they have already broken into "Walnut Creek CDROM" machines several times. I haven't tried to filter Theo or his cohorts from wcarchive, but this was at least part of the motivation behind the IP filter on freefall. Actually all of this filtering stuff is rather stupid. What we should do is simply gather evidence and prosecute. :-( Merry Christmas. :-( -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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