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Re: NYT Article this morning

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Kovar)
Mon Jan 23 22:05:09 1995

From: David Kovar <kovar@NDA.COM>
To: cklaus@shadow.net (Christopher Klaus)
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 20:46:20 -0500 (EST)
Cc: perry@imsi.com, bugtraq@fc.net, rens@imsi.com
In-Reply-To: <199501232029.PAA15899@shadow.net> from "Christopher Klaus" at Jan 23, 95 03:29:18 pm

> To fully fix the problem will require all the vendors to come out with
> kernel patches to make the TCP sequence numbering difficult to guess, then
> have all the admins apply those patches to all the machines on Internet, 
> and then we will have solved the problem.  (While we are at it, have 
> admins install patches that stop get-root scripts also).  Pretty simple and 
> quick to implement.  <grin>

  I don't have access to the source for the appropriate modules, but it
seems to me that this is a relatively simple change. What am I missing?

-David

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