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Cisco Applies For Patents To Secured TCP
An anonymous reader writes "Following the recent excitement over a potential vulnerability in TCP, Cisco's "Worldwide Patent Counsel", Robert Barr, has let it be known that they have pending patent applications for one or more of the IETF recommendations for improving TCP's security. KernelTrap has the full details."
and you use it illegally, you're in trouble.
only the criminals will have network connections
Is that a cross between excitement and excrement?
How can something be "redundant" if it doesn't repeate the story or a previous post? Slashmods are stroking their tiny cocks again.
CARS (RFC793 [1]) are widely deployed and one of the most often used reliable end to end protocols for PEOPLE TRANSPORTATION. Yet when it was defined over 20 years ago the ROAD SYSTEM, as we know it, was a different place lacking many of the threats that are now common. Recently several rather serious threats have been detailed that can pose new methods for both denial of service and possibly data injection by blind attackers. This document details those threats and also proposes some small changes to the way CARS handle inbound segments that either eliminate the threats or at least minimize them to a more acceptable level.
I don't know if I'm for it or against it now...
You mean Robert Barr, the man from the Redundancy Van from the monopoly of Cizzzcoo-eeeee?
(If you don't get the joke, go check the openBSD website.)
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NetBEUI becomes a routable protocol... :P
Linux with kernel panic...
MadPenguin.org
It looks like it is time to switch to IPX or NetBEUI for the internet.
Amusing link: skynet systems. But I think this is the page you're looking for.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Promising pie in the sky only works for idiots.
And who do you think has final say on these kind of purchases.
The Cisco is banished from Bejor, never to return.
The prophets have spoken.
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
It also detects when you try to use the CD-ROM tray as a drink holder and automatically logs you out and contacts your local BOfH.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
Now you know how she felt when you were growing up.
:)
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
I know my Cisco router is self protecting, everytime it gets more than a few requests at a time it shuts down all network traffic, requiring a reboot. At first I thought it was those damn bastards at /., but then i realized it was a feature!
Actually, the router in question is very intelligent. All attempts to connect to MSN are re-routed to Google, and any software downloaded is first routed to the system admin for approval. When it recieves a query for windows update, it returns a package containing FireFox, ThunderBird, AVG antivirus, and SpyBot. I can't tell you what it installs when the user attempts to get SP2, but I can tell you that it isn't called "Lindows."
The ______ Agenda
You're assuming you need strong claims to get a patent application approved by the USPTO.
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