Re: PPP Control
Re: PPP Control
- Subject: Re: PPP Control
- From: Matt Wood <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:38:19 +0100
Hello,
Just out of interest (sorry to be slow), but what kind of abuse could
you be open to? Surely the connection at your end is authenticated some
how before any communication starts?
I only ask as I am thinking of implementing something similar (albeit
with a low cost, rather than 0800 number).
Personally - I would think that having a good, secure system would work
better than attempting to hide your number - although I may have missed
something - it's getting late. Security through obscurity has a habit
of backfiring - just look at the mess Microsoft are in...
~ Matt
On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 10:59 pm, Joshua Orr wrote:
I am using it to dial a number that9s I want to keep hidden. I have
succeeded in getting it to dial and not leave any record of it
except in the
Connection Log in the Internet Connect application.
Is there any way to tell the PPP daemon to not log down a particular
dial,
or is there any way I could get rid of the log entries using my
Cocoa app?
It's a bad idea to do this.
Why would you want to hide the fact that your app is using the
telephone line from the user? The telephone line is a resource which
costs the user $$$ ... so, you hiding the fact from her, is a bad
thing.
I can think of only one reason you would want to do this: nefarious
XXX dial-back software $$$-making scam scheme.
That's not the sort of software project I'd like to help, and I hope
nobody else wants to help write that sort of software, either ...
You obviously can't think very well, can you? Please don't assume
something
like this, especially when there is a good reason.
If you really want to know, the reason is that I have a 1-800 number
dial up
point for people to easily signup for an ISP service. I would rather
keep
this 1-800 number a secret to help avoid abuse.
The user knows that the modem is dialing, I would just like to keep the
1-800 number dialed from the user.
-Joshua D. Orr-
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