Remember a few years ago when that Steve Gibson fellow, who has the makings of a charletan, was ranting on about how including ‘raw sockets’ in Windows XP was a really stupid idea? I totally agreed with him - despite the hysterical tone of his bleatings - but apparently Microsoft didn’t.
The world failed to melt, but Microsoft did cough up SP2, concentrating on security. And guess what’s been quietly disabled, or at least severely crippled? Yes, raw sockets. Oh man. People may say that Gibson is nothing more than a charlatan, but at least he always was, apparently, a correct charlatan.
