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Security of network infrastructure and network traffic. For questions about security of network equipment, topology, protocols, traffic, administration, and configuration. Related tags: [packet], [firewall], [network-scanners], [network-access-control].

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Scanning A Subnet Externaly

You should examine a technique called Firewalking, the original paper, and another paper. It seems like the tools 0trace and intrace are related.
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Ways to monitor someone's internet traffic

All of the wires and cables, most of which is totally out of your physical control, could be tapped. Read-only CAT-5 cables can easily be made, and work even for the most inept. I'm certain that the …
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SUN Remote Procedure Call Port 111

The most common RPC server would have to be NFS, Sun's Network File System, but NIS and NIS+ also uses that RPC system. …
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Parabolic Denial Of Service -- Would it work?

Yes, it works. it's often called a reflection DDoS attack. Variants include sending DNS queries off with the (spoofed) address of the target in them. That's a DNS reflection or DNS amplification attac …
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Repudiation in Copyright Infringement (BitTorrent)

As far as legally equating an IP address to a person, that's gone both ways in the USA. The USA Supreme court hasn't ruled, so anything is possible. I suppose that in the Axiomatic System of the US L …
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How does the Copyright Alert System work? Who has implemented it?

You could take a look at a recent technical paper, The Unbearable Lightness of Monitoring. The authors of that paper talk about how the BitTorrent protocol itself allows people to see what Internet P …
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