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Covert Channel: ASCII Art Over ICMP
An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever had a particularly lossy Cisco ping, which you were sure was trying to tell you something? I mean, really *tell* you something. Echoart allows you to return a simple ascii art image in response to a Cisco-style ping."
...mostly useless, yet very cool -- much like /. itself.
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There we go. Set this up to query, instead of a text file, slashdot's rss feed. With every ping response, it returns the latest news headlines.
yeah, because ping can be dangerous.
i'll put 5 on your one of those brainwashed windows idiots, who thinks they should put their computer into "STEALTH" mode. Newsflash idiot, any sufficiently intelligent scanner (eg, nmap) can tell if your machine is there.
I'm not kidding, try it.
(yes I know it was a joke but blocking pings is a good idea)
No it's not. Blocking all ICMP can lead to odd problems. It's fine to block echo-replies that you never requested but blocking all ICMP is dumb.
If it's in response to a ping, then you requested it and it can't be called spam.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
This program doesn't seem to be anything but a slightly sophisticated version of 'banner' that is able to intercept and send packets over a Cisco network. As I said before, nothing new ...
The part that's in bold is the part that's new.
Cretin.
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Or your O, in the case of the goatse fella.