Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:56:10 +0000 (GMT)


> > So, no reason for a firewall author to check these bits.
>
> I thought that most firewalls were supposed to be insanely paranoid.
> Perhaps it would be considered a possible covert data channel, as
> farfecthed as that may sound.

If you care about such things you run pure proxy. A packet filter is a simple
access barrier it isnt designed to stop information leakage

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