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Okay, many people believe that to hide your computer is good, it is what |
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many Internet security sites say. Could you elaborate on why it isn't |
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good to try to hide your computer. |
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Thanks |
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On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 20:27, Oliver Schad wrote: |
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> Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2004 13:06 schrieb mir gonzalo: |
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> > 1/8/04 8:50 AM, Oliver Schad escribio: |
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> > > Am Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2004 23:05 schrieb mir Mark Hurst: |
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> > >> It's much better to have a firewall than just have ports not open. |
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> > >> Even though a port is not open it can reveal the presence of your |
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> > >> machine by the manner in which the IP stack responds to a connection |
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> > >> attempt. Using a firewall you can drop those packets, making all |
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> > >> your closed ports invisible. |
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> > > |
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> > > If you want to invisible, the next router to you have to send an ICMP |
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> > > packet with "host unreachable". If you say nothing anybody with some |
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> > > brain between his ears knows there is a very intelligent guy that |
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> > > want to be invisible. |
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> > |
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> > AFAIK they appear as "filtered",that's the difference between a closed |
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> > and a filtered port. The first responds with a "negative", the second |
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> > doesn't respond. Am I wrong? |
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> |
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> That's right. But no answer means there is somebody who doesn't answer. |
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> Only if the last router before the target says "Hey, there is nobody", |
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> then there is nobody (or there is an really intelligent guy, that wants |
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> to hide his host). |
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> |
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> To hide a host is always very stupid, why should you do this? There is no |
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> advantage. If you "hide" your computer an attacker knows there is an |
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> stupid guy who doesn't know anything about network security. |
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> |
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> mfg |
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> Oli |
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> |
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> -- |
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