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Re: Worms versus Bots

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Jakma)
Thu May 6 10:14:29 2004

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 15:13:52 +0100 (IST)
From: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
To: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF1ED3EC6A.C084E944-ON80256E8C.0032520F-80256E8C.00332A81@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Thu, 6 May 2004 Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:

> connectivity, not even wireless. But it does have an internal
> 100baseTx Ethernet port that uses a non-standard connector.
> And it also includes a router unit running off the same
> power supply as the PC but otherwise completely independent.

Urg, a horrible idea. Why not just make the software on the host 
secure? 

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