[WikiEN-l] Spoofed IP address

Timwi timwi at gmx.net
Sat Jul 3 11:39:31 UTC 2004


Phil Sandifer wrote:

> IP addresses can be spoofed.

Not really. You can spoof an IP address in an IP packet, but since you 
won't receive the reply, you can't establish a TCP connection with a 
spoofed IP address, and therefore you cannot edit Wikipedia with a 
spoofed IP address.

Timwi




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