Re: Review: Steve Gibson's GENESIS

From: Alun Jones (alun@texis.com)
Date: 03/05/02

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    From: alun@texis.com (Alun Jones)
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 16:32:46 GMT

    In article <u88v1vpp87dt12@corp.supernews.com>, "Sam Schinke"
    <blank@ggfgfdgfddgfgfdgfdfggfdgfdgsdfdgfgfdgdf.com> wrote:
    >Well, having deciphered your rather irritating footnoting (it's been a while
    >since I needed two windows open to read a post) I see you are making issue
    >of something Steve Gibson has already acknowledged, namely that there _are_
    >prior works in existence. Taking his comments written before he was aware of
    >"prior work" out of context will tend you to think something is intended as
    >true when it is not.
    >
    >It would be somewhat more difficult to demonstrate that knowledge of SYN
    >cookies was somehow inescapable, even given decent reference materials at
    >the time.

    Actually, I suspect that Gibson had absolutely no clue of prior work in SYN
    cookies, given how proudly clueless he is about other common network tools and
    principles.

    Alun.
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