The evil bit is a fictional IPv4 packet header field proposed in RFC 3514, a humorous April Fools' Day RFC from 2003 authored by Steve Bellovin. The RFC recommended that the last remaining unused bit in the IPv4 packet header be used to indicate whether a packet had been sent with malicious intent, thus making computer security engineering an easy problem — simply ignore any messages with the evil bit set.
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Famous quotes containing the words evil and/or bit:
“Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ‘em both a little bit naive.”
—E.Y. Harburg (1898–1981)