Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.
#! On Thu, Aug 09, 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote:
>Yes, but I think the point that Cringely was making is that MS could
>deliberately cause the internet to become crippled with DDoS attacks
>with the Windows XP. So if they've already built in a new version of
>TCP/IP without telling anyone then when the internet 'crashes',
>everyone using winXP could discover that they have access to a new
>internet. With 100 million users Cisco would have to be pretty dumb
>not to move quickly to make sure a non-crippled internet was available
>otherwise who'd get the blame? Surely not Microsoft?
>
>I hope it won't happen.
All this stuff about raw sockets in winxp is down to Steve Gibson's one
man crusade never to be out of the news. For a calmer look at both
Cringely and Gibson, look at this story on the Register.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20908.html
Reply to: