On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 07:27:02AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> If someone can spoof the packet address isn't there also a possibility
> that they can read your packets and see your random signature?
Spoofing the packet source address is not quite the same as sniffing a
connection, which should be encrypted if you do not trust your
environment AFAIU.
> I'm not clear what would be gained by an attacker being able to insert
> such spoofed packets into the stream, though. IOW, how big is the security
> threat?
DoS caused by the autovacuum daemon running too much?
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