[LINK] internet chapter of secret ACTA draft leaked
Karl Auer
kauer at biplane.com.au
Tue Feb 23 21:49:31 AEDT 2010
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 21:33 +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> > (X) Evil packets don't always have the evil packet bit set.
>
> What is the evil packet bit?
The "evil bit" was a joke RFC (rfc3514: google for it). It mandated that
IP packets containing evil stuff should have a particular bit set in the
packet header.
It's a sort of network geek equivalent of "putting the fox in charge of
the henhouse".
Regards, K.
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