* Kurt Seifried wrote on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 14:10 -0600:
But in the case of LaBrea you do not do anything against the other computer. It is more like your neighbour allways parks his car in your garage and you make the entrance smaller so that your car will still fit in but his car will not.
I think it's more likely to put a red traffic light before with a sign telling "please wait for green before enter". I see no attack when sending very small windows; I cannot see why it's an attack telling someone "please wait - I have no time to talk with you at the moment". Well, I think me or someone other has misunderstood the thing...
Claiming ignorance ("I didn't know Labrea would crash his PC") will be tricky as in many courts with a civil suit you have to prove your innocence.
Why should a PC crash when receiving small windows? Probably it was just a power fail. And if someone means to run a PC which crashs on some packets, it's herselfs fault; and keep in mind that this is not meant as an attack. If some machine crashed if I accidently try telnet 1234 on it, I appologize but nothing more.
BTW analogies suck.
You mean, you personally think that some analogies might be missleading for somebody. But there are people which need analogies to understand a problem...
This is nothing like car parking/trespassing.
Well, I cannot imagine why someone would try to drive in a too small garage. But I cannot imagine why some OS should crash on small windows. Hum, looks like an analogy :) oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.