Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Wed, 17 Dec 2003 00:03:05 -0700: > On Tuesday, Dec 16, 2003, at 22:14 America/Denver, Tim Connors wrote: > > > I'm still a little suspicious. We are behind a strong university > > firewall, so can't possibly imagine that I was compromised (although > > while I was attempting to debug the situation (with no luck, of > > course), I did unplug the notwork) > > Oh I'm certain there's NO ONE behind that "strong university firewall" > (ha!) that would EVER try to mess with other machines on a University > network!
Strong, as in stronger than your typical stateful packet filter running on a Linux box. Yes, the latter is possible, but for what point? I can't participate in a DDOS, because of said firewall. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ Beware of bugs in the above program. I proved it correct, I did not try it. --- D. E. Knuth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
