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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:53:51PM -0600, Vitaly McLain wrote:
> >> Ah, crazy old Gibson.
>
> Gibson is a very interesting charachter, no? He seems talented, with his ASM
> programming and such, and his site is interesting to browse. But then you
> read about his 'secret Project X' and 'nanopackets' (which I recommend you
> do, if you haven't, at www.grc.com) and just wonder if he didn't forget to
> take his Prozac in the morning.
Well, Gibson has always seemed more than a little crazed; hand-crafted
"nanoprobes" that are assembled bit-by-bit - so tedious, don't you think,
but they wouldn't be the same if his code did it a byte at a time, though
where he finds those one-bit computers to do such exacting bit assembly on
I'm sure I don't know - that do... Uhm. Well, it sounds kinda like a
Gibson-spun version of nmap's stealth modes or something, doesn't it? Like
his "genesis" stuff that is SYN cookies done a little differently, four
years later. Those who are ignorant of history...
Gibson is a loon, but not a stupid one. His explanations of tech stuff are
often pretty good, and he's good at doing them up for less technical
readers, but once he gets beyond explaining what is already well understood,
well... Crazy old Gibson. :-)
But if there's anyone who wants a pretty good write up on what a SYN-flood
DOS is, and what looks like a decent write up about how SYN cookies work
(though with some details done differently), Gibson's write-up is pretty
good. I'm a little worried, though: if Spinrite is still his flagship
product, what's he going to do when S.M.A.R.T. monitoring gets to be
widespread?
-=-
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