7 Jul
2002
7 Jul
'02
8:27 p.m.
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 04:16:12PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 12:45:13 PDT, Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org> said:
Don't forget 3) the machine compromised isn't capable of spoofing. In Win95/98/ME/NT, there is no raw socket functionality. I don't
The fact that there is no raw socket *API* doesn't mean it's that much more difficult to convince the device driver to send a packet that isn't strictly kosher.
Sure, but the idea that the kids doing the harvesting a) know how to do such a thing and b) care if the compromised machine is traced is a stretch in my mind. As a previous poster said, if a DDoS comes from enough different sources, it doesn't matter if they're really spoofed or not. -c