Vulnerability Development: Re: Malicious use of grc.com

[H C <keydet89 () yahoo com>]

> Not necessarily.  There are a vast number of
> misconfigured proxies
> available on the 'net that would afford a malicious
> outsider ample
> opportunity to do their dirty work without betraying
> their point of
> origin.  This negates the immediacy of any audit
> trail and exacerbates the
> severity of Gibson's oversight.
For a port scan?  Really?

> From several of the other posts that have talked about
this issue...identification of the issue by another
party in Sept '01, as well as words on Gibson's own
site stating that there is an issue...it seems that
the only "immediacy" was the race to malign Gibson,
something which hardly serves a purpose.



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