Re: Possible New Security Tool For FreeBSD, Need Your Help.

From: Alfred Perlstein (bright@mu.org)
Date: 08/31/01 

Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:53:06 -0500
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com>

* Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com> [010831 16:51] wrote:
> Why not require the incoming packets to be spoofed from a preordained set
> of IP addresses to obfuscate it even more.

Obfuscation isn't security, it is the illusion of it. 

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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