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Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?



At 2002-12-09T15:09:13Z, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:

> All you really accomplish is pissing off legitimately misguided users, and
> detouring the incompetant cracker that wouldn't get in anyway.

That's not quite true.  Older (and newer, misused) port-scanners can get
pretty bogged down when faced with a host dropping packets.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.



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