On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:23:43 -0700, Trevor Talbot proclaimed... > It is. It's a mitigating mechanism for many types of > worms/bots/whatever, since they aren't capable of poking holes in their > computer owner's broadband NAT device.
Yea, sure. I've seen *many* bots with identd running happily joining command and control IRC servers. Those servers are almost always rogue servers that don't care if identd is running. What examples, specifically, are you referring to? I'm actually curious.
