Why the Age of Internet Innocence is Over
by Robert X. Cringely
<http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010802.html>
Some interesting observations and propositions, and even a conspiracy
theory on Win XP and raw sockets:
''Programmers who ought to be familiar with Microsoft's plans have suggested
that the real motive for raw socket support is for Microsoft to use Windows
XP to exploit a bad situation, to deliberately make things worse.
According to these programmers, Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a
proprietary protocol -- a protocol owned by Microsoft -- that it will tout as
being more secure. Actually, the new protocol would likely be TCP/IP with some
of the reserved fields used as pointers to proprietary extensions, quite similar to
Vines IP, if you remember that product from Banyan Systems. I'll call it TCP/MS. ...''
As they say in the school grounds, them's fightin' words!
Cheers
Rick W
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Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited
"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
- Henry Spencer
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