Secure desktop idea?

From: John Oliver (john.oliver@hosting.com)
Date: 10/30/01 

Message-ID: <3BDF0BF5.619A2277@hosting.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:22:13 -0800
From: John Oliver <john.oliver@hosting.com>
To: security-basics@securityfocus.org
Subject: Secure desktop idea?

A thought just occurred to me... desktop systems (and even some servers)
could be almost completely secure if there was a way to dynamically
allocate and de-allocate routes. If your system has no default route,
it ought to be safe from any TCP-based attack. If routes to remote
networks could be dynamically added as needed, and then removed, it
seems that it would be virtually impossible for an outsider to even see
that the host exists, let alone be able to root it.

Ideas? Am I just way off the deep end here? :-) 

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John Oliver
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