On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:04:34 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
> There are other ICMP messages that can be used for probing like > timestamp(msg-13). > All around all disabling ping does for you is to make it harder for your > ISP or IT support people to see if you are having network problems and > the really really stupid script kiddies trying to probe you. Alvin, I am my ISP and IT support person. My Fedora laptop cannot be remotely administered. I am inconvenienced by this. If I want to do something with it, I have to get up and walk to where I have it stored. From the laptop, I can administer my desktop, because I have ssh set up. My desktop stays behind my firewall. My laptop gets exposed. I have been on a commercial site where the Windows laptops were administered remotely, from somewhere in the USA, I think. I don't know how secure they were. The company did not have particularly nasty security requirements, i.e. they were not managing people's personal data, or military secrets. -- Howard Gibson hgib...@eol.ca jhowardgib...@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
