Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take 2)
Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> Sun, 14 February 2010 22:46 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take 2)
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 02:33:56PM +0000, Ian Eiloart wrote: > So, does that mean that all computer mediated communication is pointless? Of course not. But it does mean that anything originating on an end-user system should never be used as an input to a security policy mechanism, since The Bad Guys can either fabricate or block an arbitrary number of such inputs as they see fit. [1] ---Rsk [1] Within the constraint that they can only do so from those systems which they control. But given that the number of such systems is already very large and still growing, and that there is no reason at all to think that this trend will reverse or even slow down, this constraint is not really very limiting in practice.
- [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take 2) Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Steve Atkins
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Michael Thomas
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … der Mouse
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Michael Thomas
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … der Mouse
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Alessandro Vesely
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Ian Eiloart
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … John Levine
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Rich Kulawiec
- Re: [Asrg] An "ideal" false positive (TMGRS take … Alessandro Vesely