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Re: sniffer/promisc detector

  • From: Valdis.Kletnieks
  • Date: Wed Jan 21 11:42:28 2004

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:58:14 +0100, Ruben van der Leij <ruben-nanog@nutz.nl>  said:

> Somebody who isn't smart enough to do 'nmap -p 0-65535 $target' isn't worth
> diverting.

I'm sure everybody who got whacked by Lion or CodeRed or Blaster or.... are
glad to hear those attacks weren't worth diverting.

The point is that if somebody is doing 'nmap -p 0-65535' at you, you are a *specific*
target, and not one of the "get a probe every 4 minutes" targets that every machine
on the wire is.

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