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Originally Posted by Mrkvonic
Is true stealth important - no, but it makes people feel good about themselves, so why ruin it ...
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Well, the funny thing is... people think that not responding to ping makes them invisible and the "hacker" will think there's no computer connected.
- If there was no computer with given address connected, they'd get ICMP Destination Unreachable (ICMP Type 3) with one of the codes (such as 0 - net unreachable, 1 - host unreachable ... etc).
- Whey they simply drop those packets (full stealth FTW), they get a request time-out instead, so the router is clearly suggesting that there
actually is a computer out there with such address, but it's dropping the ICMP packets...
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Originally Posted by Mrkvonic
I prefer to draw them into my clutches and show them the beauties of the free, open(-source) world.
And then the worries end on their own.
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Yeah, that's a much better solution to these security problems...
