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  • Subject: Re: A DoS Must Read from Steve Gibson...
  • From: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:02:09 -0500 (CDT)


A few comments:

1) Your message, as written, is about Windows, not OS/400.  Does it
     really belong here?

2) Having said that, OS/400 has had support for raw sockets (and I've
     used them!) since at least V3R2.  The UNIXes have had it since
     sockets & TCP/IP were invented.

3) If you say that there is no valid reason for raw sockets, and that
     the addition of this protocol makes Windows PC's secure, this will
     naturally imply that UNIX and OS/400 were already less secure than
     Windows.   A laughable statement.

This whole topic is just silly. 
 

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Chuck Lewis wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> There is apparently something pretty scary mentioned in the following
> and about the INABILITY to stop DoS attacks in the near future unless
> Microsoft starts listening...
> 
> "For no good reason whatsoever, Microsoft has equipped Windows 2000 and
> XP with the ability FOR ANY APPLICATION to generate incredibly malicious
> Internet traffic, including spoofed source IP's and SYN-flooding full
> scale Denial of Service (DoS) attacks!" Steve Gibson, Gibson Research
> 
> See:
> 
> http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
> 
> Comments ?
> 
> Chuck
> 

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