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the boy is 21 years old, forget it.



Then again, I did read (parts of) the RFC from '81, some paper (from Morris iirc) about predicting the ISN from '85, lots of research in the 90's and early 00's regarding predictions and preventing it... but nothing actually just guessed the number, and people seemed to agree that "if the ISN is unpredictable then yeah it's secure right?" That's why I considered this a new thing.




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