On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Irony wrote: > http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm hype and hyperbole. please see today's issue of hackernews (06 june 2001) for some links to the discussion on this. in a nutshell, gibson, as usually, overstates things and enjoys the press's attention and omission of understanding. :P using winpcap and libnet, for instance, forged packets can be created already on any Win32 system, pre-XP. the internet is certainly in increasing dangers, but not from XP any more than from the latest release of slackware Linux, for example. *shrug* 'must read' and 'freak you out' .. heh. ____________________________ jose nazario jose@cwru.edu PGP: 89 B0 81 DA 5B FD 7E 00 99 C3 B2 CD 48 A0 07 80 PGP key ID 0xFD37F4E5 (pgp.mit.edu) - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]