[ale] How to test your public internet connection for open ports

[Ron Frazier]

Michael W.,

Yes, you were passionate.  I don't think there was anything too too over 
the top.  But, thanks very much for the note though.

Ron

On 02/11/2011 06:38 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Hey Ron,
>
> Yeah, I know you addressed this to Michael T.  Sometimes I type before I
> look and I've done that more that once in this thread.  Still,
> somethings are just as applicable to me.
>
> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 16:51 -0500, Ron Frazier wrote:
>    
>> Michael T.,
>>      
>    
>> For what it's worth, I just responded to Wolf's post and publicly
>> acknowledged your and Michael W's, and others' expertise.
>>      
>    
>> I too agree that we've beaten the horse pretty good.  So, I will be
>> winding down the discussion.  You chose to make these long replies,
>> which I will review, and selectively reply if I think the reply is
>> relevant and hasn't been addressed.
>>      
>    
>> However, having said that, many of the things which you said in the
>> message I snipped below either border on, or are outright personal
>> attacks on me.  I resent that, and I feel it's not appropriate.  I'm
>> politely asking you to stop that.
>>      
> I can't speak for Michael T.  I can only speak for myself.  Don't take
> any of what's been said personally.  Some of us (me especially) can get
> pretty intense over subjects we're passionate about.  It happens that
> Michael T. and I share a passion for security and that really takes a
> different way of thinking that can sometimes be hard to explain.  Like
> Bruce Schneier likes to say, "we don't think like other people".  And I
> know I certainly have a reputation for being rather brusk and abrasive
> at times.  [Nobody start piling in on that, ok?]
>
> Over the years many of us have developed pretty think hides and I've
> been flamed plenty of times and made plenty of mistakes myself.  Stuck
> my foot in my mouth often enough that "fillet de sole" becomes a
> familiar taste.  And I even made more that a couple of mistakes in this
> thread by typing without thinking, not the least of which was forgetting
> the whole thing with TCP defaulting to RESETs and not ICMP UNREACH.
> DoH!  I know better.  There were a couple of others.  Suffice it to say,
> even if you return ALL the right error codes, you really can never be
> "invisible" on the net.  Some of us are advanced enough to see through
> even that (exercise left to the readers).  It's certain that if the bad
> guys want you bad enough they can too.
>
> If I said anything you felt was too personal or too ad hominem, my
> apologies, no offense was intended.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>    

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