Comment It's all a plot to break TCP/IP (only half joking) (Score 1) 355
:begin conspiracy theory
A report on Cringely claims that the use of raw sockets in XP is just to make network security so bad that Microsoft needs to replace TCP/IP with its own, more secure protocol (part of .NET). This protocol will be part of its .NET secure architecture, which means no unsupported media types allowed (bye bye Quicktime and Real. Also, bye bye MP3 as Windows Media Player doesn't support that).
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit2001081 6. html
Having a security guy in the White House means that the government will hear exactly why the problem is with TCP/IP and the only way to improve on the virus problem is to switch to the secure environment of .NET, which needs Microsoft transport protocols of course (more secure).
:end conspiracy theory
A report on Cringely claims that the use of raw sockets in XP is just to make network security so bad that Microsoft needs to replace TCP/IP with its own, more secure protocol (part of
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit200108
Having a security guy in the White House means that the government will hear exactly why the problem is with TCP/IP and the only way to improve on the virus problem is to switch to the secure environment of
:end conspiracy theory
