Hello Jonathan, On Monday, May 23, 2005 at 5:30:54 AM Jonathan [JA] wrote:
>>>> I want to be totally invisible and untraceable. If I'm browsing the web, >>>> I'm using a >>>> tunnel (proxy server 127.0.0.1:8080) that totally hides my identify (IP >>>> address) ... SMN>>> ...are you really sure you are invisible... >> He is! I bet he blocks packets of type "ICMP Echo request" and drops >> them on his firewall, therefore he's *absolutely invisible*!!! Trust >> me!1!eins!elf!! ;-) JA> *coughs* black hole *coughs*... JA> Problem with blocking ICMP echo requests is it is just as bad as JA> having them enabled... People can still see you there, you just appear JA> as a "black hole" sucking in the packets ;) Really? You mean the absence of information *is* information? ;-) Something like "if the router in front of him doesn't tell me he's not there, he <cough>*IS*<cough> there!"?! ;-) Still leaves the question: Where is the black hole located *if* somebody enables this "security feature"? I have a theory this black hole is a few inches in front of the monitor, between a pair of human ears ;-) -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v3.5 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2) Zimmerman's Law of Complaints: Nobody notices when things go right. ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.5 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
