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["Grainge, Derek" <DGG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: David Bowles [mailto:dbowles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>Recently I read in one of the PC mags that by default Win2K and Win-XP both
>disable low-level Ethernet packet decoding / processing in hardware on the
>network card.  MS have set this to be handled in software by the PC's CPU
>instead (sorry I can't remember which mag - PC-Pro, Pc-Plus or PCW - I'm
>moving house so I can't easily lay my hands on this mag right now).

There is a rather hysterical discussion of a similar / the same topic on
Steve Gibson's website,  so look down this page http://grc.com/default.htm
for stuff on XP raw sockets. This implies that in XP, a clever programmer
could easily strip data from the network card and access info promiscuously.

Now wait a minute ...    hasn't Linux been able to do that for years :-)
But as root.


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