>So...Mr. grc was finally DOS'd and he write's a long essay about something
>we have been fighting for years, and somehow it's BlackIce's fault?
They are actually very well written and informative articles (both the
original and the follow-up). I saw the BlackIce comment, but to me the
comment didn't really seem anything out of the ordinary. If I recall
correctly, BlackIce allowed trojan horses to send and receive packets
without being caught. That's an extremely bad thing for a firewall to
do. If the trojan horse bypassed BlackIce's security system somehow, it's
not BlackIce's fault, it is the users' fault for using a software firewall
and opening a bad attachment. But, it sounds like it is a flaw specific to
BlackIce (they just aren't scanning some ports).
-Scott
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