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Re: [Bruce Schneier ] CRYPTO-GRAM,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Oct 16 08:31:50 2002
In-Reply-To: <87y98zm75h.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 20:42:02 -0700
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
At 7:47 PM -0700 10/15/02, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> CRYPTO-GRAM
>
> October 15, 2002
>
> by Bruce Schneier
>
>...
>** *** ***** ******* *********** *************
>
> National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
>
>
>... Preliminary drafts included a suggestion that ISPs
>provide all their users with personal firewalls; that was taken out
>because ISPs didn't want to look bad for not already doing something
>like that.
Does anyone run a service that will check an IP address for open ports?
(I'd like to test my firewall.)
Cheers - Bill
[Moderator's note: I'm not aware of one -- it would doubtless be
abused -- but just running nmap against the machine should work
fine. That's what I do. --Perry]
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