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Re: GRC rides again...

  • From: Roland Dobbins
  • Date: Mon Jul 02 10:02:43 2001

Implementing fully-compliant sockets in XP is -not- a security issue.

There're LOTS of things wrong with the way Microsoft do things, but this simply isn't one of them. It's just amazing to me how credulous the public are when harangued by such an obvious snake-oil salesman.

Steve Gibson, a hero in his own mind.

Roeland Meyer wrote:

From: David Howe [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 2:48 AM

... With yet another "update" to the DDos pages.
http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm
and I quote:




Unfortunately, today we see only the operation of blind



self-interest from




Microsoft and the Internet's ISP's




As I seem to recall several members of this list offered him
help (and were rebuffed) perhaps they

would like to comment? He seems increasingly lost in

a fantasy world where everyone is out to get him....




The question I have is, would QoS would do any good here?

Other then that, he seems to be on a rant here. As much as I hate to say it,
I almost agree with MSFT here. That said, Novell stated, decades ago, that
MSFT never could understand network security. At the time, I agreed with
Novell. Current observation is, that MSFT has yet to learn. Considering
MSFT's workstation market-share, that is a problem for all of us.




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