12 Oct
2012
12 Oct
'12
4:40 p.m.
[...] people block /all/ ICMP traffic thinking that it
somehow
increases security
Well, to be fair, it does. It's just that the additional increment in
security it provides is so small compared to the price it exacts that
it's rarely an appropriate tradeoff to make.
But even understanding that there _is_ a tradeoff, much less actually
making it appropriately, is something far too few people do.
and then don't understand why basic stuff like TCP
doesn't work quite
right.
Yes. The price. :)
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