On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 04:23:52PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:09:40AM +0100, Toad spake thusly: > > Wrong. Total bullshit. A 12 year old kiddie can DoS an address IF HE HAS > > OR CAN ACQUIRE MORE BANDWIDTH THAN THE TARGET. Otherwise the internet > > would have been completely destroyed aeons ago. > > I think you are coming on just a bit too strong here. And who couldn't > take over a few dozen windows boxes and acquire more aggregate bandwidth > than the target if they really wanted to? It is largely due to the fact > that most people aren't interested in doing these things that the Internet > wasn't destroyed aeons ago. > > > > An attacker with the ability to monitor a node's communications will > > > presumably have the ability to just cut off that node's internet > > > connection too - they wouldn't even need to bother with the attack you > > > describe. > > > > Perhaps, perhaps not. > > If you can sniff the line you can see the tcp sequence numbers and easily > kill any connection. For non-tcp if you know the protocol you can inject > your own commands and cause disconnect or confuse things as to render them > useless.
Only if the protocol is stupid. > > -- > Tracy Reed > http://copilotconsulting.com -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
