"Mikkel L. Ellertson" stated the following:
>
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, SoloCDM wrote:
> >
> > It's time to resurrect this discussion!
> >
> > Long time ago, when I was not up-to-date on security, I had a cracker
> > enter a worm into my system without even entering the front door. I
> > was fortunate to spot the trouble early, but a worm of that magnitude
> > was not worth having around.
> >
> > Why the story? Ipchains has reject and from all appearances it allows
> > the worm, as it so happened long ago, into the system. Deny doesn't
> > seem to entertain any thought of accepting anything. In fact, it
> > seems to baffle bad or good systems into not knowing what to do. I
> > think that's far better, then allowing any hints.
> >
> > Care to comment?
>
> Was this when there was a bug in the IP chains code? I think I remember
> a security warning about this...
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