At 20:06 01/20/06, Ben Ruset wrote:
Everyone laughed because "raw sockets" is not a real problem. *nix systems have had the ability to generate raw sockets for years. Things like clustering and VRRP depend on the ability to generate packets that appear to come from virtualized (or spoofed!) IP addresses.
Raw sockets on Windows could have been a much bigger problem than those *nix systems because for every *nix system user, there were probably a thousand clueless people using Windows. Besides the fact that there aren't as many *nix users (as windows users), most of those *nix users are not so clueless.
I don't see why people are so quick to attack Gibson. He puts out many free security utilities and spends a lot of effort educating windows users.
Regards, Bill
