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IP: CIFS considered harmful
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 15:39:35 -0500
From: *Hobbit* <hobbit () avian org> Subject: CIFS considered harmful Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 19:14:30 -0500 In case anyone was curious what I've been up to for the past few months, and occasionally waving my arms about to those unfortunate enough to be within earshot, I have been researching a certain "toy network filesystem", aka the file-sharing stuff that Microsoft espouses, in enough depth to learn that it presents HIGH RISK. I've pulled together the current state of my knowledge about it into a whitepaper presented to the net-security-geek community at large, and feedback has so far been pretty favorable. It's about 118K long. If you care about the security issues in W95 and NT environments, or just enjoy reading big ol' anti-Microsoft rants, you might find it entertaining: http://avian.org/avian/papers/cifs.txt _H*
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