> If Gibson isn't bright enough to figure out how to write a script kiddie > trojan to dynamically load the packet driver, I don't trust him enough to > be telling the world that he thinks there's a problem. Besides, if this > was really a problem, we'd already see this occuring on Win32 > systems, Unix > systems, Mac systems, etc - all of which support raw sockets. Methinks > Gibsons diatribe was one more of wanting publicity for himself or > his site In fairness to Gibson, there does not exist any Unix system I know of that has the flaw he claims Windows XP has. They all restrict access to raw sockets to trusted/privileged code. DS
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