The security risk mentioned today on
[[http://www.forbes.com/business/services/newswire/2004/04/21/rtr1339935.html][]] hreflang="en" title="Forbes.com">Forbes web site is something close to a nightmare for the Internet if it were to happen: apparently, TCP has a flaw that might allow a hacker to reset a TCP faster than it normally does. The results would be:
…that Web transactions would fail to go through, Internet telephone calls would drop and Web sites wouldn’t fully download…
according to Mike Pilbeam from Cisco. Groovy, isn’t it?¶