Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:58:22
Message-Id: 5E234734.7080209@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine by n952162
1 On 18/01/20 17:45, n952162 wrote:
2 > What protocol doesn't use acknowledgements?
3 >
4 Why would an eavesdropper want to acknowledge ANYTHING? Isn't that the
5 whole point?
6
7 Cheers,
8 Wol
9 >
10 > On 2020-01-18 14:50, Wols Lists wrote:
11 >> On 16/01/20 21:01, james wrote:
12 >>> On 1/13/20 3:24 AM, n952162 wrote:
13 >>>> On 2020-01-12 16:48, james wrote:
14 >>>>> I also install and re-install, as many of the gentoo systems get
15 >>>>> "attacked" before I can� complete a secure install, or the hackers
16 >>>>> just read much more than I do.
17 >>>>> I guess I'm still popular, in very negative way.
18 >>>>
19 >>>> Hmmm.� Is that "attacked" to be interpreted in some sort of
20 >>>> metaphorical
21 >>>> way or do you mean really hacked over the internet? May I ask how, and
22 >>>> how do you know?� What's involved in a secure install?
23 >>>
24 >>> Monitor your connection, with a system setup that the ethernet does not
25 >>> responds to any sort of request. The system just collects and log. NO,
26 >>> I'm not documenting how to do this, but various ways exist, documented
27 >>> on the internet to make *most* ethernet interface to where they are
28 >>> *one-direction* only. HOW you achieve this? There are a myriad of ways.
29 >>>
30 >>> Good Hunting and *never* tell anyone how *you* do this....
31 >>>
32 >> If you're handy with an ethernet crimping tool, just cut the TX wires
33 >> and put the interface into promiscuous mode ...
34 >>
35 >> Just be aware that - routers especially - can swap TX and RX so they
36 >> could possibly get round that.
37 >>
38 >> Cheers,
39 >> Wol
40 >>
41 >>
42 >
43 >