[45456] in Cypherpunks
Re: And the standard continues to lower...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.co)
Fri Dec 15 14:44:44 1995
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:46:23 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Peter Trei wrote:
> This guy's home page is a hoot - he's into UFO contacts and dolphin
> communication.
>
> After writing to him and getting back a description of his system, it's
> clear that he's clueless. He seems to think that info sent to a vendor
> using his system can't be sorted out from the gazillion other packets
> on the Net.
>
> I described to him sniffer attacks, subverted routers, etal, and
> reccomended some basic reading (Cheswick & Bellovin,
Is this the two partners in crime from AT&T?? Cheswick & Bellovin??
I think that they're probably not all that reputable (or knowledgable)
from what I've seen of their writings and contributions to the AT&T DSRP
(Data Security Response Program) mailing list.
(If they are the same people, I mean ...)
> Kaufmann, Perlman, & Speciner, and Schneier). He said he'd
> look into it. (Yes, I know there's plenty of other attacks, such as
> OSPF spoofing, but I didn't describe them).
>
> I think we can educate this guy.
Plenty of educating can probably be done, I think.
Alice de 'nonymous ... <an455120@anon.penet.fi>
...just another one of those...
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