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It's the evil bit, but unironically.
by TylerE 1y ago
It's the evil bit, but unironically.
- edoceo 1y agoFor today's lucky 10k: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt Note date published
- 0xDEAFBEAD 1y ago>Attack applications may use a suitable API to request that [the evil bit] be set. Systems that do not have other mechanisms MUST provide such an API; attack programs MUST use it. Potential flaw: I'm concerned that attackers may be slow to update their malware to achieve compliance with this RFC. I suggest a transitional API: Intrusion detection systems respond to suspected-evil packets that have the evil bit set to 0 with a depreciation notice.
- jrochkind1 1y agodeprecation notice