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Cool beans! It seems as if Valve will be releasing their own version of voice communication in the next patch for Half-Life. (I never did try out Roger Wilco, but I thought it was a neat idea.) Well, unlike the first story, I didn't see this on the ShackNews, but I came across this article on ZDNet. "Seriously nuts". Heh.
Thursday, June 07, 2001 at 20:48:18 (UTC)
The ZDNet article doesn't give a link to Steve Gibson's site, which is too bad, because his DoS story is really quite interesting.
http://grc.com/
FlyingS
Thursday, June 07, 2001 at 22:08:48 (UTC)
That Steve Gibson story is such b****cks it's not even funny. Check out the commentary on @stake for a solid explanation. I'm no Microsoft fan, but this hype is nonsense, and highly irritating when we have enough REAL security issues to deal with at present.
MJO
Friday, June 08, 2001 at 16:39:23 (UTC)
hey mikeo... :-)
While @stake correctly claims that there is no technical obstacle right now to enabling "raw IP socket" use in pre-WinXP Microsoft OSes (by bundling add-on libraries to a Trojan), Steve Gibson has a point in that WinXP will open the floodgates to the "mainstreaming" of DDoS attacks -- that is, non-filterable attacks orchestrated by people who are even LESS technically knowledgeable than script kiddies.
But, as in any "war", this is just an escalation (since security folks will eventually figure out a way to defend against thousands of WinXP machines with the ability to spoof)
Actually, I don't consider DDoS a security problem at its root. It's a politeness problem -- just like lowering the signal-to-noise ratio in USENET by spamming is a kind of "denial of USENET service" and is rightly viewed as originating in lack of netiquette.
reg_at_verk <e-mail>
Friday, June 08, 2001 at 17:35:00 (UTC)
Hey, I don't care about WinXP. The man's on a crusade; let him have fun with it.
What's interesting is the tale of one man's fight against a 13-year-old with an army of zombie bots. It's a geeky adventure. Sure, it reads like he's trying to sell you something and sure, he has a bit of a l33ter than thou attitude, but it's a fun boring-afternoon-at-work read. And those IRC thingies are really kinda clever...
FlyingS
Friday, June 08, 2001 at 22:38:59 (UTC)
Compile with static links, and there's not even a need for libraries. I realise it's all a bit silly, but I get really annoyed when I see people whoreing themselves to the media like this. He's more interested in a word bite for CNN than the realities of the situation.
*beats Steven Gibson about the head with a large trout*
I'll stop ranting now. ;-)
MJO