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January 2007, Week 4

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Re: Checking for FTP Success
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Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]>
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Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:50:41 -0800
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John Bawden <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Art,

Again showing my ignorance but why would ping be
blocked? I'm assuming that it is very innocuous. Have
the hackers (I prefer another name but won't use it
here) managed to attach their dirty deeds to ping now?

John,

I remember a bug where a ping with a large packet would actually crash the HP... of course that was more than 10 years ago.

The other issue is that what the hacker doesn't know.  So if the computer does not respond to a ping, the hacker won't know to attack.

-Craig


 
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