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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 10:54:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed.news.qwest.net!news.uswest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B83F498.E0F6C582@timesys.com> From: Adam Fineman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-timesys-2.0beta 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: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> <0sDnZRVkz5qL@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3b83847d.1117251944@news.worldonline.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:06:16 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.117.135.98 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 998502895 65.117.135.98 (Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:54:55 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:54:55 CDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12265 comp.lang.c:76182 comp.lang.c++:84892 comp.lang.functional:7628 Date: 2001-08-22T14:06:16-04:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article , Larry Kilgallen says... > > > >In article <3b83847d.1117251944@news.worldonline.nl>, info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) writes: > >You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. But it would appear > >that you are only considering the possibility that if the US Navy > >aimed at you they might miss. > > > >Have you considered the possibility that the US Navy might hit you > >when they were actually aiming at someone else ? :-) > > Well, the software in question was the marine (engine) control system. It had > nothing to do with the weapon systems. I suppose you could get rammed... > I'm in need of clarification. Are you saying that a US Naval vessel's engine control system was running under Windows NT? -- Adam Fineman Software Engineer QA Department TimeSys Corporation -- Opinions posted here are my own. They do not necessarily reflect those of the management or the other employees at TimeSys Corporation.