RE: Gibson (was Crack Office XP)

["David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>]

> If Gibson isn't bright enough to figure out how to write a script kiddie
> trojan to dynamically load the packet driver, I don't trust him enough to
> be telling the world that he thinks there's a problem.  Besides, if this
> was really a problem, we'd already see this occuring on Win32
> systems, Unix
> systems, Mac systems, etc - all of which support raw sockets.  Methinks
> Gibsons diatribe was one more of wanting publicity for himself or
> his site

        In fairness to Gibson, there does not exist any Unix system I know of that
has the flaw he claims Windows XP has. They all restrict access to raw
sockets to trusted/privileged code.

        DS