From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 15:12:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!chnws02.mediaone.net!chnws06.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.8.202!typhoon.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B687EDF.9359F3FC@mediaone.net> From: Ed Falis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <5ee5b646.0108010949.5abab7fe@posting.google.com> <%CX97.14134$ar1.47393@www.newsranger.com> <9k9if8$rn3$1@elf.eng.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 22:12:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.96.132.248 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 996703968 65.96.132.248 (Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:12:48 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:12:48 EDT Organization: Road Runner Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10993 comp.lang.c:71433 comp.lang.c++:79176 comp.lang.functional:7115 Date: 2001-08-01T22:12:48+00:00 List-Id: Goran Larsson wrote: > > In article <9k9if8$rn3$1@elf.eng.bsdi.com>, > Chris Torek wrote: > > > But this practically begs for a new question: if > > poorly-written Ada (or any other language) were popular instead, > > would that mean there would be *no* exploitable bugs? > > No, it would mean that Arianne 5 rockets would tip over, break up, > explode, and fall down. Hmmm... didn't that happen a while ago? > > -- > G�ran Larsson Senior Systems Analyst hoh AT approve DOT se Read the report. - Ed