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... P.S. This post is in the public domain. C. S. U. M. O. C. L. U. N. E.