Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (670 mails)

["Reto Inversini" <inversini@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know: hitting back has always some drawbacks ... you motivate the
attacker to try harder ... and what if it is not an attacker but a user
trying to access a service at wrong place? or the attacker uses other
compromised systems to carry out the attack? I think you can easily get into
a legal nightmare.

Best regards ...
Reto Inversini


----- Original Message -----
From: "spiekey" <spiekey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <suse-security@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 4:55 PM
Subject: [suse-security] Excotic Firewall Police


> Hello All!
> What would be the advantage or disadvantage of this idea:
>
> Why not forward the packets, which will be dropped usually, and forward it
> to the source address?
> Forward execpt of dropping.
>
> A kind of mirror effect would mybe keep an attacker busy till you check
your
> logs ;D
>
> Just an Idea.
>
> Spiekey
>
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