Re: How to easily bypass a firewall...

[Kain <kain () kain org>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:01:42PM -0400, compguruman () mail comcast net wrote:
> At 03:49 PM 7/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > 5. Firewall dialog box uses random numbers / letters represented by graphics
> > that the user has to enter in a password field if the password is not
> > correct sound alarm, halt system.
>
> know of anything that does this?
Well, the signup procedures for some services, such as Yahoo, Paypal etc do
this, but they have the advantage that your application trying to spoof the
response cannot access the memory space of the running program.  In Windows,
unless you have a carefully locked down system, it is too easy for J. Random
Application to take control of the entire system, to the point where you can
scan and alter the data structures of arbitrary processes.  In fact, many
applications people use almost insist on this being the case.
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Bryon Roche
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<kain () kain org>
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