full-disclosure - Is Marty Lying?

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From: florin at sgi.com (Florin Andrei)
Subject: Is Marty Lying?

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:13, security snot wrote:
> "Detect intrusions" - if you can set an IDS signature for something, then
> you shouldn't be vulnerable to it.  So the functionality of IDS is to tell
> you when you've been compromised by six-month old public vulnerabilities
> that dvdman has finally gotten his hands on an exploit for, that you never
> bothered to patch for?

True, in an ideal world.
However, in the _real_ one, things are slightly different. Especially on
large networks (> thousands of systems), funny things start to happen.

Your p.o.v. is typical for someone who only has the experience of a
mom'n'pop type of network.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/