"ID Rules Exist, But Can't Be Seen"

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Thu Sep 30 19:43:42 PDT 2004


At 05:06 PM 9/30/04 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
>I post this not as a refernce per se, but to ask the question:
>
>Exactly Why Does the Government Not Want to Reveal Their ID Rules?
>
>For instance, is it indeed possible that revealing this rule would pose
an
>additional security risk? If such a rule exists (and it does) then
hijackers
>obviously already know about it.

Not only that, but as Bruce S pointed out, they can reverse-engineer
the rules by sending probes.





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