Re: Anti-spoofing filters may be required by law

From: Kyler Laird (Kyler@news.Lairds.org)
Date: 04/08/03 

From: Kyler Laird <Kyler@news.Lairds.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 17:24:00 GMT

unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) writes:

>]>> I know enough about internet packets
>]>> to know that you don't get anything without someone *being able to*
>]>> figgure out where you are.

[...]

>No. Bob was certain of "someone *being able to* figgure out where you
>are"

And he's right. *You* can probably "figgure out" where you
are and you are someone. I don't see that there's much of
point to all that though.

Sure, there are probably other people who can determine
where someone sits based on a packet that he created, but I
doubt their ability has much to do with IP.

--kyler

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