Re: [dvd-discuss] Fwd: Bush taps Clarke as CyberdefenseChief

[Michael.A.Rolenz(at)aero.org]

Steve Gibson has some interesting comments on raw sockets in WindowsXP on 
this website (www.grc.com). Given some of his recent experiences with DOS 
attacks, I can understand his concerns. There certainly is the potential 
for widespread misuse given the expected distribution of WindowsXP. OTOH, 
I'm getting pretty tired of hearing about nimda, code red1, code red2, etc 
by the talking heads on the tube and NOT hearing them say "OK the internet 
is down today thanks to another "feature" created by microsoft" Everybody 
keeps reporting on the evil wicked hackers without focusing on the real 
culprit-microsoft. 

Right now everybody is playing catchup and want to be a computer whizz 
just as people did with stereos, cars, and radio decades ago.




Noah silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org wrote:

> As with Raw sockets support, ,maybe the best thing to educate people 
about 
> the dangers is simply to let them see what happens when you allow a 
> monopoly to exist....what's more an incompetent one.

BTW I don't get the big deal with Raw socket support.  In my view, that's
something GOOD added to windows, albiet something most consumers won't
use.  Most OSs, including unix type OSs have had Raw socket support for a
long time.

 -- noah silva