Re: [OFF LIST] Re: attempt from Taiwan to connect to my privoxy port

[Eugen Leitl <eugen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:13:09AM -0500, Andrew Lewman wrote:

> The terms I continue to hear from military organizations are "weaponized
> icmp", "weaponized tcp", and "weaponized probing".
> 
> I don't really know how one can take an icmp packet and determine if
> it's weaponized or innocent, but it's quite the dichotomy that's being

Easy, just check whether the evil header bit is set.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3514

> created.  Interestingly, most of these people don't think tor is
> weaponized.  For whatever that means.

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