Re: PPP Control
Re: PPP Control
- Subject: Re: PPP Control
- From: Joshua Orr <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:57:14 -0600
It is authenticated at the other end. But at least I can make it a little
bit harder for anyone. I figure that I might as well do all I can...
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Hello,
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Just out of interest (sorry to be slow), but what kind of abuse could
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you be open to? Surely the connection at your end is authenticated some
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how before any communication starts?
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I only ask as I am thinking of implementing something similar (albeit
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with a low cost, rather than 0800 number).
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Personally - I would think that having a good, secure system would work
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better than attempting to hide your number - although I may have missed
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something - it's getting late. Security through obscurity has a habit
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of backfiring - just look at the mess Microsoft are in...
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~ Matt
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On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 10:59 pm, Joshua Orr wrote:
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>>> I am using it to dial a number that9s I want to keep hidden. I have
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>>> succeeded in getting it to dial and not leave any record of it
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>>> except in the
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>>> Connection Log in the Internet Connect application.
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>>> Is there any way to tell the PPP daemon to not log down a particular
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>>> dial,
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>>> or is there any way I could get rid of the log entries using my
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>>> Cocoa app?
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>> It's a bad idea to do this.
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>> Why would you want to hide the fact that your app is using the
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>> telephone line from the user? The telephone line is a resource which
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>> costs the user $$$ ... so, you hiding the fact from her, is a bad
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>> thing.
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>> I can think of only one reason you would want to do this: nefarious
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>> XXX dial-back software $$$-making scam scheme.
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>> That's not the sort of software project I'd like to help, and I hope
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>> nobody else wants to help write that sort of software, either ...
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> You obviously can't think very well, can you? Please don't assume
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> like this, especially when there is a good reason.
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> If you really want to know, the reason is that I have a 1-800 number
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> dial up
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> point for people to easily signup for an ISP service. I would rather
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> this 1-800 number a secret to help avoid abuse.
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> The user knows that the modem is dialing, I would just like to keep the
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> 1-800 number dialed from the user.
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> -Joshua D. Orr-
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