Tuesday, March 15, 2005

What ever happened to the raw sockets debate?

I seem to remember sometime back right before XP was released that a certain someone was on the pulpit and screaming to the masses about the dangers of 'raw' sockets. It's been something like 4 years now and to my knowledge no major internet meltdown has occurred. I wonder if/when the original author will update his site with a humble, "ok, I did not know what I was talking about".

If you don't know who I am talking about, I would encourage you to visit the parody site:

http://kumite.com/rsnbrgr/rob/grcspoof/

And then the visit to original site to see the unique writing style (or 'hype'):

http://www.grc.com/dos/intro.htm

Tuesday, September 13, 2005 6:12:57 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Raw sockets have been stripped off the XP with the service packs - that's what happened.
Ishmaeel
Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:42:02 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Indeed - what a cave in. Even before the SP, no meltdown happened.
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