1996-12-02 - Re: IP address

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
To: adamsc@io-online.com
Message Hash: 0c1dee35c2367c771327e6413150c870129b78e9a800018074d2f3c0c0dc07a6
Message ID: <199612021038.EAA02902@manifold.algebra.com>
Reply To: <19961202055418796.AAA68@rn240.io-online.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-12-02 13:52:30 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 05:52:30 -0800 (PST)

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From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 05:52:30 -0800 (PST)
To: adamsc@io-online.com
Subject: Re: IP address
In-Reply-To: <19961202055418796.AAA68@rn240.io-online.com>
Message-ID: <199612021038.EAA02902@manifold.algebra.com>
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Adamsc wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 1 Dec 1996 22:23:30 -0600, Internaut wrote:
> 
> >What is the risk of publishing your dynamic IP address to a web page while you are on line?  How vulnerable is someone just connected to the internet, w/o any server running? What attacks are feasable? --Internaut
> 
> Well, if you are running Win95 (all) or 3.1 (w/certain TCP/IP stacks) your
> machine can be locked up or rebooted at *any* time using just PING!
> 

Isn't is Unix that is actually vulnerable?

	- Igor.





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