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Passive Aggressive
Jon Lasser, 2002-01-30

Black hats use 'passive fingerprinting' to identify your operating system without you knowing it. But the technique is useful for white hats too.

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Passive Aggressive 2002-02-01
Anonymous
Ethics is an interesting issues when talking about security. While I agree with you, I wonder how many other people do.

I've often thought of using passive fingerprinting to identify potential clients for Windows support or Novell support or whatever.

However, just the thought of using passive...

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