[OFF LIST] Re: attempt from Taiwan to connect to my privoxy port

[Scott Bennett]

     On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:34:20 +0100 Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:13:09AM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote:
>
>> The terms I continue to hear from military organizations are "weaponized
>> icmp", "weaponized tcp", and "weaponized probing".
>> 
>> I don't really know how one can take an icmp packet and determine if
>> it's weaponized or innocent, but it's quite the dichotomy that's being
>
>Easy, just check whether the evil header bit is set.
>
>http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514
>
     Be sure to note the date of the RFC, too.

>> created.  Interestingly, most of these people don't think tor is
>> weaponized.  For whatever that means.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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