Re: Anti-spyware at the Gateway
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Re: Anti-spyware at the Gateway

From: Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@seppig.de>
Date: Tue Mar 14 2006 - 12:47:36 CET

Somebody. wrote:

> No general method does exist. It takes skills and mulitple tools.

You'll still only catch the obvious. Should I restate Rice's theorem?

>> So you actually admit that you're frauding your customers?
>
> No, when I turn up tunnellers that subsequently admit to the behaviour, I
> don't feel that's faudulent.

And do you tell your customers that most likely there are other tunnels
in place that you cannot detect?

>>> So you're right, none of this works, tunneling is impossible to detect.
>> Tunneling is *generally* and *practically* impossible to detect, so
>> you're just wasting your time.
>
> You're right, it's impossible. Nobody should try.

It's practically impossible, so nobody should try.
Received on Mon May 1 00:57:28 2006