Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263411AbUDUQ0O (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:26:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263435AbUDUQ0N (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:26:13 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:19906 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263411AbUDUQ0L (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:26:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4086A077.2000705@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:25:27 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@chaos.analogic.com CC: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here... References: <40869267.30408@nortelnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 20 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > The vulnerabilities were discussed on US news reports as being > like somebody discovered they could disconnect your electricity > if they had some wire-cutters. > > Those guys in the UK just don't have anything else to do! It > seems that they discovered that if you tap-into some network > physical media you could disrupt it! The impression I got was that some equipment was much more vulnerable due to having a) massive windows, and b) using sequential source ports, making it much easier to guess even if you can't tap the line. Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/