At 11:04 AM 2/1/2003 -0900, you wrote:
On Friday 31 January 2003 04:29 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> After all the fecal matter that impacted the environmental control units
> last weekend - now this? Rather strange I'd reckon...
>
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/866962.asp?0si=-
Hmmm... As you know I am unemployed since Mandrake laid me off last July 31.
This is a job I am probably not "overqualified" for, so I think I will send
in an application.
letters of reference would be appreciated... email me privately if you would
care to write one.
First act would probably be asking folks to replace routers with stateful
routers based on 2.4 kernel ASAP. We have a huge threat from trojaned XP
computers with TCP-style DDOS attacks and spoofed IPs. Stateful systems can
stop that, while no set of router rules can do much against the capabilities
of XP to run DDOS attacks with the full Berkeley TCP stack, with current
routers. Linux also has that full raw TCP stack, but those computers are
considerably harder to trojan.
But this job will have to deal with privacy and freedom issues while locking
down one of the sloppiest communication systems extant. Many of the
"solutions" to internet security threats are frightening, and all of them
will increase the cost of use.
Civileme
I just recently got a router & its up & running here on the network. Works fine with Win2k & Linux. Its a BEFSR41 from Linksys. I'm a tinfoil hat wearing kinda gal & any security I can implement I will. :)
In the spring at latest I'll be adding another firewall behind the router. *Grins* Ya i'm that paranoid. Heh and besides it'll be used to serve up mp3's as a pvt ftp too. Or something like it using Apache perhaps instead.
Anyway, so how can I tell if this thing has stateful packet inspection? I assume it doesn't as its a slightly lower end model. But it was on sale & anything is better than nothing right?
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