full-disclosure - Idle scan rediscovered!!!

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Message-ID: <20060505230213.GE3277@sentinelchicken.org>
Date: Sat May  6 00:02:21 2006
From: tim-security at sentinelchicken.org (Tim)
Subject: Idle scan rediscovered!!!

> Your assumption that the idlescan is dead where wrong.. no investigation
> needed....

I never said idle scans were dead.  I merely dispute the half-baked
claims that current Linux systems can be used as an idle host, or that
they are somehow "rediscovered". 

tim