On Nov 29, 2005, at 6:46 AM, AB wrote:
I could change my email address fairly easy (not so easy for
all my recipients), and if my IP address becomes compromised I
would like to be able to do the same. Even as part of regular
system maintenance, housecleaning and problem prevention. The
firewalls work but, just one Bit torrent session can expose your
system and IP to thousands of potential "evil doers" (if I may
quote George Bush).
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What do you mean "IP address becomes compromised"?!
This security discussion could be an interesting exercise if you
would tell us what it is exactly that concerns you - what it is you
are trying to accomplish, then we could discuss ways to accomplish
those things, if they are possible.
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Just like an email address becomes compromised when it gets into
many SPAMMERS hands, a known IP address can make you a target,
although I understand that random probes and attacks are likely and
turned away by my firewall(s) daily.
It doesn't work that way. Changing your IP address is as simple as
resetting your cable/dsl modem. Bad guys don't target specific IP
addresses, honest. They troll enormous blocks of them, and you can't
change that, period. The only reason to mask your IP address is is
YOU'RE doing something you don't want to get caught at.
Changing your e-mail address is an ineffective and time consuming way
of dealing with spam; it's far better to demand that your ISP
implement effective Spam filtering, such as SpamAssasin. (we use it
here on the main campus email system; that handles some 30K accounts,
it's quite scalable.)
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