Subject: RE: [Asrg] Remote mailing

From: "Eric D. Williams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:38:51 -0400

Eric,

Indeed, it may be however it is a 'feature' of many operating systems and is 
not definitively a 'security problem' unless the intent of the obfuscatory 
activity is 'mailicious' or malicious whichever you prefer ;-).

-e

On Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:37 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine 
[SMTP:[email-masked]] wrote:
> ... That's a security problem ...
>
> Milage varies, for two of the four words in the phrase above.
>
> Some enet nic vendors allow the mac address to be user defined.
> Most inet i/f vendors allow the ipv{4|6} address to be user defined.
> ...
>
> The user defined character of these properties of network attachments
> do not carry with them sensible guarantees about the uniquenss of the
> user-defined MAC, anywhere, or the routability of the ip{4|6} address,
> or ...
>
>
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