Waitaminnit! If it's soooo easy as described by the first, 6 year old ref and the second 1 year old ref you give, then why are we even discussing spoofing - it should be a dead issue by now.
Methinks mebbe cuz it ain't that easy - takes time and $$$ to do, both of which require appropriate blessing by a org's Ribbons and Seals Committee - who don't bless unless they see a "bang" for their buck. Back-room, under the covers security work doesn't bang.
IOW, "technically" it is an easy fix (except for the legions of oddball, old routers out there), it's a difficult business decision to reach. For those with oddball/old it's both a hard-tech and hard-biz decision. Which translates to: let's not. Until we really, really have to. Which usually occurs because you got nailed.
Although I think that Cringely is more than just a little bit off on this 'un, I still believe that rawsocks availability, on machines that Mom & Pop are gonna get for Jr at BestBuy is a damn fool idea. Not that Jr is going to dive right in and code the next-gen DDos tool, Jr can't hack that. But Jr can damn sure use the tool if it's handed to him on a silver platter from his fav warez / SK-toolkit site.
Think about it: over a year's time that's how many PC's shipped with this? Ans: Big Number. If only a few percent of those machines become script kiddie playpens we are talking thousands with the capacity to control oodles more zombie winboxen - which in a year or two will be upgraded to XP/rawsocks if they don't have it already. This has got Stupid Idea written all over it.
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"Polstra suggests looking at your watch to see where the second hand points at this particular moment, and use that number of minutes past the hour."
Um, what's a "second hand"?
Waitaminnit! If it's soooo easy as described by the first, 6 year old ref and the second 1 year old ref you give, then why are we even discussing spoofing - it should be a dead issue by now.
Methinks mebbe cuz it ain't that easy - takes time and $$$ to do, both of which require appropriate blessing by a org's Ribbons and Seals Committee - who don't bless unless they see a "bang" for their buck. Back-room, under the covers security work doesn't bang.
IOW, "technically" it is an easy fix (except for the legions of oddball, old routers out there), it's a difficult business decision to reach. For those with oddball/old it's both a hard-tech and hard-biz decision. Which translates to: let's not. Until we really, really have to. Which usually occurs because you got nailed.
Although I think that Cringely is more than just a little bit off on this 'un, I still believe that rawsocks availability, on machines that Mom & Pop are gonna get for Jr at BestBuy is a damn fool idea. Not that Jr is going to dive right in and code the next-gen DDos tool, Jr can't hack that. But Jr can damn sure use the tool if it's handed to him on a silver platter from his fav warez / SK-toolkit site.
Think about it: over a year's time that's how many PC's shipped with this? Ans: Big Number. If only a few percent of those machines become script kiddie playpens we are talking thousands with the capacity to control oodles more zombie winboxen - which in a year or two will be upgraded to XP/rawsocks if they don't have it already. This has got Stupid Idea written all over it.