full-disclosure - Is Marty Lying?

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From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Is Marty Lying?

--On Monday, September 22, 2003 2:13 PM -0700 security snot 
<booger@...xclan.net> 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?
>
> Useless.

You bring new meaning to the word "idiot".

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu