May 26th, 2004, 03:16 AM
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Re: OT: An Existential Dilemma
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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
IPs can be spoofed but only for a 1-way traffic thing which excludes most internet activitys including this one.
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Unless I'm mistaken, it is possible to spoof IPs even for 2-way traffic, but it takes a lot of work and resources (bandwidth, server capacity, software). In effect you hijack the other computer's IP address, which is really only worthwhile if you're going for ... a bank or other really significant IP address. And of course, it's generally easier to hijack a domain, for lots of reasons.
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