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Re: ISPs can easily decrease net abuse

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From: Melinda Shore
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:21
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In article <Xns944D5CB03B028juergennieveler@nieveler.org>,
Juergen Nieveler  <juergen.nieveler.nospam@arcor.de> wrote:
>Now what will mobile phone services need a firewall for? ;-)

Aside from the obvious issues, it's possible to mount a DoS
attack on a mobile phone that will run its batteries down -
just send it a steady stream of packets.
-- 
     Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - shore@panix.com

         While George Bush has been president, American jobs have 
                disappeared at the rate of 2 per minute
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From: shore@panix.com (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,can.internet.highspeed
Subject: Re: ISPs can easily decrease net abuse
Date: 10 Dec 2003 07:21:58 -0500
Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp.
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