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He did specify that the listed servers only blocked on evil bits, implying they didn't block when other private bits were used


I don't see anything saying that in the blog post


> After doing scans if I could connect to port 80 from a PC that had no evil bit kernel, and a normal one on the same network, I found the following list of domains that only failed on my evil bit computer


This seems to be the comparison between a totally regular device and one with the evil bit set, he doesn't mention a device having any other private bits besides the evil bit set.


I am 100% sure that it was in the article that he listed the sites which only failed on the evil bit, and not on other reserved bits. I've read it 4 times again, and it is not there now. Strange.


Perhaps they were running TempleOS? :P That seems like one stack where the odds of evil-bit packets being deliberately blocked seems very high to me.


TempleOS has no networking support at all, so I suppose one interpretation is that it drops all packets with the evil bit set.




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