Re: what users want (was RE: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra)

[James Wilkinson <jamesw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie generated:

>There is even that new patch for 2.4 that will let the machine show up as
>another OS as far as nmaps fingerprinting goes.

How does that work?  They've written patches that copy bug-for-bug other
os's tcp/ip stacks?  So your tcp stack becomes prone to the same
exploits as there are for other os's.  I don't see this as being very
beneficial at all.

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jamesw

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