Yeah, discontinuing Windows XP is going to wreak havoc across the globe, “Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!” “Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…” “The dead rising from the grave!” “Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!”Īnd only Linux can save the lives of millions of registered voters.ĪTMs, vote tallying machines, lots of stuff has horrible, gaping security holes in it. It’s up to the protocol designer to add the security, regardless of which is used.
#2, There is nothing that makes TCP superior over UDP for security. Connectionless protocols are always faster. #1, As someone who has been writing network software since 1990, this is not news. Here is an article from an International Engineering Trade Pub about using UDP for M2M (IoT) because it is faster then TCP/IP:
