Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: David Damerell
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:00

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{R} Richard Ashton  <newsjan@pink.semolina.org> wrote:
><damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>}Not to mention how much of the BSD networking stack - although that won't
>}be a reason to call the lawyers...
>Given how badly broken the MS TCP/IP stack is, if it is based on BSD, it must
>have been badly screwed over by a dozen crocodiles to get to it's shipped
>state.

But remember how many of the 'malformed packet' vulnerabilities
mysteriously affected Windows in just the same way as the BSDs?
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From: David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/06
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