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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: IP Filtering to www.freebsd.org 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Dec 1996 09:56:41 +0100."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 01:02:33 -0800
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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