Re: How to Stealth POP3 Port 110 using NIS2000?

From: Wolfgang Kueter (wolfgang@shconnect.de)
Date: 02/13/02 

From: Wolfgang Kueter <wolfgang@shconnect.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:39:49 +0100

Eirik Seim wrote:
 
> Same goes for all the other
> ports. If anyone, be it an application scanning random ip addresses
> or a determined hacker wanting to break into YOUR computer, tries to
> connect to a port where you have no listening service, he won't get
> anywhere.
>
> Any other opinions?

How could one dare to publish another opinion, since you gave a correct
description of the technical facts.

Those who prefer snake oil over technical facts might use it and die
from it.

Wolfgang 

-- 
A foreign body and a foreign mind,
never welcome in the land of the blind.
Peter Gabriel, Not one of us, 1980

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