Speaking of wireless

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:49:20 EDT
Michael O'Donnell said:

>How does refusing to do ICMP make a box more secure?

They can't finger-print your TCP/IP stack and determine what OS 
you're running.  This makes it difficult to then know what types of 
script-kiddies to run in order to root your box.

See this SANS article about this very topic:

	http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/IDFAQ/TCP_fingerprinting.htm
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