On Dec 8 2006 02:04, Joachim Schrod wrote:
>
>To quote Jon Postel in RFC 761, the TCP definition from Januay 1980,
>the last two lines on page 12:
>
> be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
> others.
>
>Words to keep in mind, they served us well in more than 25 years --
>RIP Jon Postel.
You know where this RFC attitude brought us - Web browsers accepting
broken HTML, resulting in sloppy non-standard pages that display in
less than average of the browsers. Especially when it comes to
security, e.g. firewalls, it's better to turn the RFC quote:
Be conservative in what you accept and be
liberal in what you do.
[http://jengelh.hopto.org/p/jen_ipfw/TECH.txt]
Meaning: block all network packets that could potentially be harm and
pro-actively try to stop any spammer using non-compliant probing
techniques.
-`J'
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