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TCP Threat Overstated

April 21st, 2004 · Comments Off

It looks like yesterdays big scare about a universal flaw in TCP is being overblown.
CNet:

Widespread reports about a flawed communications protocol making the Internet vulnerable to collapse were overblown, according to the researcher credited with uncovering the security problem.
“The actual threat to the Internet is really small right now,” Watson said on Wednesday. “You [...]

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