OT: More Spam

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 10:26am, gnhlug at sophic.org wrote:
> However it is still possible to spoof the source, IF the attacker has
> control of some machine (i.e. a router) which lives in the path ...

  Well, this has turned into a semantic distinction.  I generally consider
"spoofing" to be a passive attack, i.e., one that does not require intercept
or redirect anything.  Anything that requires that sort of active attack I
consider "hijacking".  After all, if you've taken over a router, and told
that router to route packets for a given address to you instead, you've
effectively *become* that address.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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