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On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Rob J. Nauta wrote:

> Indeed, a magazine called FEH had some very good and useable SOCK_RAW
> code (the demo program sent a christmas tree packet) in issue 4,
> which would be easily used to build a syn flooder and a spoofer,
> and this is more than 6 months old.

    Just for the record though, ReDragon (the person in question who 
works for ISS) was also the Editor of FEH.  I still don't think ISS had 
anything to do with the SYN floods though.

                       ________________________________
                      [ Bruce M. - Feist Systems, Inc. ]
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
             'DISA information shows that computer attacks on the 
          Department of Defense are successful 65 percent of the time.
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         computer security programs in government.' -GAO/T-AIMD-96-108

