Microsoft States Full TCP/IP Too Dangerous

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 28, 2005 @01:54AM from the don't-let-them-have-all-the-toys dept.

daria42 writes "To fully implement the TCP/IP protocol in Windows XP would make creating denial of service attacks 'entirely too trivial', Microsoft has claimed. The company was responding to claims by Nmap author and well-known security expert Fyodor that by repeatedly disabling the ability to send TCP/IP packets via the 'raw sockets' avenue, Microsoft was asking the security community to 'pick their poison': either cripple their operating system or leave it open to hackers. Admitting that a recent security patch had intentionally disabled a community-developed workaround to Microsoft's TCP/IP changes - which were first implemented in Windows XP Service Pack 2 - the company claimed it had received little negative feedback on the issue."

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No matter what MS does, people will complain by harlows_monkeys · 2005-04-28 02:05 · Score: 1, Redundant

Before XP, they did not support raw sockets, and they got blasted by Steve Gibson for adding support for them in XP.
So now they are getting blasted for taking them out.

Sounds like MS gets to choose: make Gibson happy, or make Fyodor happy.
Re:News Flash: Butter is good on toast! by cortana · 2005-04-28 06:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yup. The only solution is to design the OS correctly in the first place. Unfortunatly MS missed the boat on that by about 11 years, and we're all still paying for it.