IPv4 Headers Investigated

An anonymous reader writes "New security measures are being suggested (see RFC 3514) for the IPv4 header. The measures include a bit that can be set and unset according to whether the packet is secure or not. Due to the important security implications, anyone coding client/server internet applications might want to take a look."

Comments

Guy's, It's a joke on YOU!

[spiedrazer]

They know it's a dupe!!! Every year they post more and more stupid 4/1 stories and sit back and laugh at how seriously many of you take this stuff.

This year they decided it would be fun to combine the two things that seem to piss many readers off more than anything else by duping one 4/1 story as many times as they can.

As Will Shatner so eloquently put it, get a life!

Re:uh

[PC_Freak]

Wonder how far Taco will take it.

Between him and the other admins, probably rather far. Look at what's currently listed on various parts of the /. site (and affiliate sites):

• BSDs to be Merged
• IPv4 Headers
• George Foreman USB iGrill (yes, it's a page on ThinkGeek, but it doesn't show up in the RSS feed on the side. It's possible the RSS hasn't updated, but when was the last time you heard of a grill being powered off the USB port?)

Those alone are enough to make me think twice about what I see on /. today, but there's other articles that I suspect are also forgeries:

• Gnomemeeting Closes the Source
• Enlightenment goes 1.0
• New Whitespace-Only Programming Language

I'm not familiar enough with any of them to know how plausible they are, though I suspect they're not very likely. (I'd also list the "Can You Trust Microsoft On Security?" article, but the business world questioning Microsoft's practices--that's one's too out-there to be a joke. ;-)

In short, I suspect some fun is being had with us, so artfully that we're not even fully aware of the depth of it. For myself, I'll wait until tomorrow before I read anything here today. :-]

-PC_Freak