In my experience, even nmap's fingerprinting feature is often insufficient. And there are also countermeasures against OS fingerprinting.
For example, on Linux one can use something like ippersonality to mangle the responses to potential fingerprinting attempts, and make your computer look like running another os. Too bad the authors haven't updated the code recently, the most recent version seems to be made for 2.4.0test4.
And wasn't there some (pseudo) suggestion by MS to make ASF an open standard (back in '98)?
Dunno about that. But more recently, Micros~1 had Avery Lee to remove ASF support from his nifty Virtual Dub software (GPL). His page used to have lots of interesting info about this case, but it seems to have been removed.
One more question: Do you know about an ASF reference manual online? Microsoft did something like that for AVI, but I can't seem to find it for ASF.
IIRC, the specs are described in a MS patent or something. Again IIRC, Avery Lee reverse engineered the ASF format just to find out later that the spec would have been available somewhere (not necessarily on the web).
That wasn't Windows ME ("Win 98 SE") in the screenshots, but a beta of upcoming Windows.NET (codename Whistler, RTM due date April 18, 2001 according to winsupersite.com).
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Err, nevermind :). I guess I just didn't get it the first time. I guess I should take a nap or something.
Nobel Laureates don't count?
I'm referring to Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR and his quite extensive use of LSD.
Lots of other examples out there too, but DARE won't be the first to tell you about these.
For example, on Linux one can use something like ippersonality to mangle the responses to potential fingerprinting attempts, and make your computer look like running another os. Too bad the authors haven't updated the code recently, the most recent version seems to be made for 2.4.0test4.
Dunno about that. But more recently, Micros~1 had Avery Lee to remove ASF support from his nifty Virtual Dub software (GPL). His page used to have lots of interesting info about this case, but it seems to have been removed.
One more question: Do you know about an ASF reference manual online? Microsoft did something like that for AVI, but I can't seem to find it for ASF.
IIRC, the specs are described in a MS patent or something. Again IIRC, Avery Lee reverse engineered the ASF format just to find out later that the spec would have been available somewhere (not necessarily on the web).
That wasn't Windows ME ("Win 98 SE") in the screenshots, but a beta of upcoming Windows.NET (codename Whistler, RTM due date April 18, 2001 according to winsupersite.com).