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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Sampsa Laine
from: Sean Dennis
date: 2011-02-23 21:04:22
subject: Fidonet and today

Hello, Sampsa.

Thursday February 24 2011 at 00:07, you wrote to me:

 SL> Wouldn't it be cool to have some kind of heuristics (on an external
 SL> firewall) to detect attempted buffer overflows etc at the app level of
 SL> the BBS or shell session?

Eh, if someone tries it, they get canned.  I'm currently blocking 28
countries or 18,751 networks and I have zero problems.  If they can't
connect, they can't cause problems.

Later,
Sean

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