we ought to write an april 1st RFC for a new service – call it HACKPORT or similar – that you can connect to and have it advertise a list of hackable TCP/UDP ports and services hosted on the machine.

this should – if made mandatory – have the beneficial effect of negating all these port-scanning tools that are available on the net, clogging-up cable modem bandwidth and so forth…

it’s not so loony an idea – the IDENT (formerly AUTH) protocol is based around the similar notion that you can trust what the machine tells you…