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Re: Hacked - is it my turn? - interesting



Le 12451ième jour après Epoch,
Rolf Kutz écrivait:

> * Quoting François TOURDE (fra-ds-no-spam@tourde.org):
>
>> But I think DROP is the best way, 'cause it slow down NMAP or other
>> sniffers. Sniffers must wait packet timeout, then retry, then wait,
>> etc.
>
> Your fooling yourself. What prevents sniffers from
> sending multiple packets at once[0].

Nothing, but with or without DROP.

> And you're
> breaking the TCP-Protocol, which makes debugging
> much harder.

Ok, but I don't want somebody debug on *my* machine. It's only allowed
for me :)

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