On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:22:47 -0700 Bill Stewart <nonobvi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > >> Here's an exercise. Wipe a PC. Put it on that cable modem with no > >> firewall. Install XP on it. See if you can get any service packs > >> installed before the box is infected. > > 1. Yes, I can. I simply didn't put an IPv4 address on it. ;-) > > 2. I wouldn't hold XP up as the gold standard of hosts here. > > One of my coworkers was IPv6ing his home network. He had to turn off > the Windows firewall on the machine with the IPv6 tunnel for a couple > of minutes to install some stubborn software. Then he had to reimage > the box because it was pwned, and he's pretty sure that the infection > came in over the IPv6 tunnel, not the hardware-firewalled IPv4. > Your friend should learn about causation verses correlation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation Every noticed how people who have car accidents got out of bed that morning? > -- > ---- > Thanks; Bill > > Note that this isn't my regular email account - It's still experimental so > far. > And Google probably logs and indexes everything you send it. >
