Re: firewalling off the world?

From: Tim Haynes (usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk)
Date: 12/26/01 

From: Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk>
Date: 26 Dec 2001 16:21:10 +0000

Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> writes:

> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 19:00:48 -0500, John Doe, <expires2002@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Ian reacted a bit emotionally. Let's try a more cold calculated
> response...

Hmmmm.

> This does *NOT* increase your security by a factor of 3. If your system
> is insecure to begin with, it'll get cracked by a "domestic" machine. If
> you have vulnerability X, the first attempt will compromise your machine.
> Having 100 attempts rather than 400 attempts won't really make any
> difference. If it's secure, it won't get cracked, regardless of the
> number of attempts.

Quite so. Only 1 probe is needed, 100 or 400 makes stuff-all difference.

The question still remains, why should discrimination against country by
IP# be either (a) on-topic for cols or (b) tolerated?

~Tim 

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