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Re: Hackers Targeting Home Computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugene Leitl)
Sun Jan 6 11:35:12 2002
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:41:47 +0100 (MET)
From: Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: Hack Hawk <hh@hackhawk.net>
Cc: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>,
Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
<cryptography@wasabisystems.com>, <dcsb@ai.mit.edu>
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Hack Hawk wrote:
> It surprises me that providers like Earthlink & GTE (I have one DSL on
> each) aren't taking measures to filter out virus traffic from infected
> systems. It seems a simple enough task to me.
A *very* bad idea. First, the traffic doesn't bother me, personally. In
fact, it creates a need to use more diverse, and more secure systems.
Secondly, building realtime pattern recognition and traffic blocking
capability is something certainly to be abused in future.
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