RE: DoS, possibly spoofed IP Addresses

["Snow, Corey" <CSNOW () ddpwa com>]

Steve Gibson's position on a number of issues, most notably the XP/raw
sockets issue, is not one that is shared by a majority (vast majority) of
security professionals.

Steve Gibson's research on the use of raw sockets is, to say the least,
flawed (IMO). Also, Mr. Gibson engages in no small amount of FUD in his
site, which is less informative than it is inflammatory, again IMO.

I would *highly* recommend a search of the archives of this list, Bugtraq,
and the security-basics list for more information on Steve Gibson and
GRC.com before you take anything he says on his website at http://grc.com as
being useful and/or valuable.

I am not attacking Steve Gibson personally here; in my opinion he's probably
a nice guy. But his actions have done more to harm information security than
improve it. As the site grcsucks.com says, Mr. Gibson is not a scam(er), but
his motivations are worth questioning, as are his methods.

Also, see some of these URLs for counters to Steve Gibson's statements on a
number of issues:

http://grcsucks.com
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/24189.html
http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/misc/ddos/grc-reply.txt


I don't speak for my employer.

Corey Snow


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jupp, Peter [mailto:JuppP () ottawapolice ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 6:56 AM
> To: 'mahmut korkmaz'; incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: DoS, possibly spoofed IP Addresses
>
>
> Hi Murat,
> The best reading I've done about DoS attacks was courtesy of 
> Steve Gibson, look here http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm , of 
> particular interest elsewhere on Mr Gibson's site is the 
> information about Windows XP raw sockets, which deliver IP 
> spoofing capability to the masses. 
> Good Luck, 
> Peter.

>

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