As a member of a US military "organization", that term "weaponized icmp", etc, is bullshit speak to try to gin up tax dollars to support "info warfare" commands and related crap. You have to call EVERYTHING a weapon or everyone a potential terrorist if you want to fund your latest pet project.
Total crap. "Weaponized" icmp my ass. And I'm a Comm troop too. praedor On Wednesday 16 December 2009 09:13:09 am you wrote: > On 12/16/2009 04:52 AM, grarpamp wrote: > > And of course everyone knows the Chinese boogeymen are probing the > > > > hell out of US address space. Oh wait, so are the Brazilians and > > the Romanians and the... ;) Why just the other day I was feeling > > lonely and sent out about 16M 'illegitimate' pings to some random/8 > > just to see who said hello. > > The terms I continue to hear from military organizations are "weaponized > icmp", "weaponized tcp", and "weaponized probing". > > I don't really know how one can take an icmp packet and determine if > it's weaponized or innocent, but it's quite the dichotomy that's being > created. Interestingly, most of these people don't think tor is > weaponized. For whatever that means. > -- Freedom is not the Judeo-Christian divinity's gift to anybody. Freedom and democracy have their origins with the Greeks and the Romans, who had a bunch of gods whose idea of family does not comport with George Bush's. --Nicholas Von Hoffman, NYObserver *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
