[wplug] Internet Security and DOS(denial of service) attacks

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>From: Bill <billpwl1 at home.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug <wplug at wplug.org>
>Subject: [wplug] Internet Security and DOS(denial of service) attacks
>Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:28:36 -0400
>
>I know this is only one of the reasons we are using LINUX, but this
>report by Steve Gibson of Gibson Research is a really interesting read.
>As if we needed another reason to avoid using MS Windows. There are a
>few here......
>
>  http://grc.com/dos/intro.htm
>
>Bill Powell

I'd be wary of this guy's opinions.  He tends to go nuts about 
not-so-amazing things.  For example, he's convinced that since windows XP 
has support for RAW SOCKETS, it's going to become the hackers' favorite DDOS 
tool.  Nevermind the fact that I could write a perl script on my linux 
machine which can do the same thing.  Eh.

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