Re: This is a must read document. It will freak you out

[Jose Nazario]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Irony wrote:

> http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

hype and hyperbole. please see today's issue of hackernews (06 june 2001)
for some links to the discussion on this.

in a nutshell, gibson, as usually, overstates things and enjoys the
press's attention and omission of understanding. :P using winpcap and
libnet, for instance, forged packets can be created already on any Win32
system, pre-XP.

the internet is certainly in increasing dangers, but not from XP any more
than from the latest release of slackware Linux, for example. *shrug*

'must read' and 'freak you out' .. heh.

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