April 9, 2004
2:53 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:50:18AM -0400, Josh Huber wrote:
"Martin, Eric" <MartinE@worc.k12.ma.us> writes:
I personally have my firewall configured to drop pings. If they don't know you're there, you aren't a target. Granted it doesn't keep seasoned hackers off your box, but it's one more piece of security.
I don't buy that argument. Two situations:
How about the fact that if you don't, you're open to acting as an unwitting participant in a smurf/fraggle amplification DoS? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu WPI Network Engineer GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC