From: anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 04:00:16 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: And the standard continues to lower...
Message-ID: <199512151846.KAA14526@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, Peter Trei wrote:

> This guy's home page is a hoot - he's into UFO contacts and dolphin
> communication.
> 
> After writing to him and getting back a description of his system, it's
> clear that he's clueless. He seems to think that info sent to a vendor
> using his system can't be sorted out from the gazillion other packets
> on the Net. 
> 
> I described to him sniffer attacks, subverted routers, etal, and
> reccomended some basic reading (Cheswick & Bellovin, 

Is this the two partners in crime from AT&T??  Cheswick & Bellovin??

I think that they're probably not all that reputable (or knowledgable)
from what I've seen of their writings and contributions to the AT&T DSRP 
(Data Security Response Program) mailing list. 

(If they are the same people, I mean ...)

> Kaufmann, Perlman, & Speciner, and Schneier). He said he'd
> look into it. (Yes, I know there's plenty of other attacks, such as
> OSPF spoofing, but I didn't describe them).
> 
> I think we can educate this guy. 

Plenty of educating can probably be done, I think.



Alice de 'nonymous ...               <an455120@anon.penet.fi>


                                  ...just another one of those...


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