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Date:	Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:04:57 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Bob, Sheridan, D_____.org ?

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J R FOX wrote:
>
> Bob, Peter --
>
> Any idea what they may be able to actually DO about
> this ? And, tell me -- isn't this of very limited
> value, in the best case scenario ? I mean, anyone
> launching these "exploits" -- beyond the greenest
> script kiddies, running canned attacks right off of
> the skull & crossbones CD they bought for 8 bucks at
> the computer show -- are probably going to be able to
> hijack someone else's real IP, or otherwise fake out
> the "Source" IP. Right ? And most of the world uses
> DHCP, where the IPs change regularly from lease period
> to lease period.

Foxerator Dude,

They have an amusing post on the home page -- go skulk around
http://www.dshield.org/ for some good info.

Bob makes use of DShield and Bob is _not_ the kind of person to waste
time on useless things (like extraneous words in his responses). If
Bob uses DShield, that's good enough for me.

Technically, the incoming network packets contain the sender's IP
address and the port on your computer they're trying to access. These
can be hacked but it's difficult (one method is to take over a router,
another is to fiddle with the packet length).

DHCP and changing IP addresses (mine changes about every two weeks)
aren't an issue. The sender usually doesn't care which machine they get
hold of, they just want any machine so they can take it over and send
out spam or whatever.

- Peter

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