Evil bit

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+Humerous proposal in RFC3514 to make life easy for firewalls by setting a TCP
+packet bit to indicate if it was transmitted by an evil entity.
+"If the bit is set to 1, the packet has evil intent". It's a satire on how
+people look for simple technical solutions to what are really complex social
+problems (the problem of evil on the internet). Also see the XMPP equivalent
+XEP-0076 "Malicious Stanzas".