[mdlug] Realtek silent data corruption

[Rich Clark <rrclark@rrclark.net>]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Jeff Hanson wrote:

> On 7/31/07, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
> > > From: Mathew Enders
> >
> > > I think that after reading it that the data inside the packets was
> > > corrupted not the packets themselves and that is how it passed the
> > > TCP/IP check.  Some else asked the same question in the comments.
> >
> >  With TCP connections, the data has a checksum, too. But it's possible
> > for certain patterns of data corruption to still pass the check. And
> > if the driver at the sending end corrupts the data (reading it in from
> > the sending application) before it puts it on the wire, there's nothing
> > the receiver can do to detect that.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something but logical deduction seems to conclude
> that this is an improvement:
> 
> 1.  It's a Windows-only issue.
> 2.  The corruption could make transferred applications inoperable.
> 3.  The data from Windows PCs includes a much higher percentage of
> malware than non-Windows PCs.
> 4.  Corruption of transferred applications from the affected systems
> would cause a reduction of malware in general.

5.  PROFIT!!

> Logical?

Sort of, but there are some rather interesting leaps made in your theory.