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List:       nanog
Subject:    Re: how to protect name servers against cache corruption
From:       Michael Dillon <michael () priori ! net>
Date:       1997-07-31 16:15:03
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At 3:54 AM -0400 7/31/97, Alexander O. Yuriev wrote:
>> a. not talk publicly about this lest the cracker community learn too much
>
>Sure. Now how do you propose to make sure that only good guys know about
>bad things? Mathematically it is impossible. It is a set theory

I don't propose to "make sure" that only good guys know, I just suggest
that it is better to not spread the info publicly when you don't know who
is listening in. Why make the bad guys job easier?



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