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Re: Steve Gibson vs. Microsoft
From: avalon () coombs anu edu au (Darren Reed)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 17:18:41 +1000 (Australia/ACT)
In some mail from Andy Lutomirski, sie said:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ZDNet posted an amusing article about raw sockets in WinXP (IMHO this took _way_ too long) : http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2770517,00.html Anyway, it seems that Steve Gibson hasn't seen any of the version of nMap that have raw socket support on Windows. Also, I can't see any reason why a malicious user couldn't just flood a site using UDP sockets.
Steve Gibson is a media slut and should be treated as such. If you look at how he writes up things on his own web site, you can see they're made to look just like how they might in print. In my surveying of what he's done, he's done...well...nothing very exciting. His "nanoprobes" were really lame (a different spin on what nmap does) and if people would just start ignoring him, we'd be much better off. [ Moderator note: I agree 100% with Darren & Andy. Gibson is a charlatan whose "research" is written for clueless media reporters (for press attention) and the teeming masses of internet newbies (to whom he sells various products). His "findings" are not new, are always filled with massive hyperbole, and are frequently completely false. Instead of presenting evidence to prove his points, he tends to just state them using goofy blue or green fonts as if that somehow adds credibility. We recommend avoiding this guy! -Fyodor ] -------------------------------------------------- For help using this (nmap-hackers) mailing list, send a blank email to nmap-hackers-help () insecure org . List run by ezmlm-idx (www.ezmlm.org).
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