Conspiracy theory of the day:
Are Microsoft deliberately leaving open security holes in Windows' TCP/IP
stack to spread Windows-based worms and fuel demand for a
proprietary
replacement to TCP/IP, which will allow all connections to be tracked
and identified, stamping out file sharing and also kicking those pesky
open-source OSes off the Internet? Robert X. Cringely thinks so.
And the scary thing is that the content industry (think AOL Time Warner,
Sony, et al.) could get right behind something like this, even going as
far as buying laws mandating traceability for network connections.
(We can probably expect a surfeit of scare stories about the uncontrollable
explosion of terrorism/child pornography in the AOL/Murdoch media and the need
for something like this sometime soon.)