Re: individual firewalls considered useless (Re: Send local mail - how?)

From: John Hasler (john_at_dhh.gt.org)
Date: 01/25/05

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    Charles Sullivan writes:
    > I have ping disabled also.

    That doesn't make you invisible. If they don't get "destination
    unreachable" they know you are there.

    > Someone reading this newsgroup...

    Nothing in a Usenet article reveals anything about your IP.

    > ...or at a website I've visited would know there's a computer using my
    > (dynamic) IP. But how would anyone know whether there is still a live
    > connection?

    They don't know or care what sites you visited. They just scan IP blocks. 

    -- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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