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

[Steve Southam <ssoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any packet could be part of an attack. The same packet in different situations can cause many different effects, depending on how the system has already been setup, by admins AND attackers.

It depends on the knowledge of the entity that sent the packet, how many more of them there are and stuff like that. But yeah a specific hex pattern being a militarized whatever is bullshit.

Steve


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From: owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [owner-or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Praedor Atrebates [praedor@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:04 AM
To: or-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OFF LIST] Re: attempt from Taiwan to connect to my privoxy port

As a member of a US military "organization", that term "weaponized icmp", etc,
is bullshit speak to try to gin up tax dollars to support "info warfare"
commands and related crap.  You have to call EVERYTHING a weapon or everyone a
potential terrorist if you want to fund your latest pet project.

Total crap.  "Weaponized" icmp my ass.  And I'm a Comm troop too.

praedor

On Wednesday 16 December 2009 09:13:09 am you wrote:
> On 12/16/2009 04:52 AM, grarpamp wrote:
>  > And of course everyone knows the Chinese boogeymen are probing the
> >
> > hell out of US address space. Oh wait, so are the Brazilians and
> > the Romanians and the... ;) Why just the other day I was feeling
> > lonely and sent out about 16M 'illegitimate' pings to some random/8
> > just to see who said hello.
>
> 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
> created.  Interestingly, most of these people don't think tor is
> weaponized.  For whatever that means.
>

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