"R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forwarded: >But the security experts said the issue of computer security had more to do >with the ubiquity of Microsoft's software than any flaws in the software.
There was an example of a point raised in the paper the same day it was published, when two anti-spam services (monkeys.com and compu.net) were both DDOSed out of existence by (as the monkeys.com admin put it) "thousands of separate zombie machines". Although the anti-spam services were (I would assume) not running Microsoft software, Windows provided the "convenient and susceptible reservoir of platforms from which to launch attacks". In addition the users of the anti-spam services would be mostly Unix boxen (e.g. Postfix users pulling in the monkeys.org hash-lists or sendmail users using the compu.net RBL), so ironically the only systems that wouldn't be adversely affected by this are the ones that are causing the problem. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
