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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no 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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 23:24:54 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!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle 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. Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 23:26:16 -0700 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3B84A208.736FD73F@adaworks.com> 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> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 9e.fc.cd.b9 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 23 Aug 2001 06:23:56 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12309 comp.lang.c:76325 comp.lang.c++:85068 comp.lang.functional:7644 Date: 2001-08-23T06:23:56+00:00 List-Id: Richard Bos wrote: regarding greater dependence on NT by the U.S. Navy, > That is good news. For the rest of us, that is ;->. It is my impression that some in the Navy are finally discovering the horrors of depending on Microsoft products. Unfortunately, not enough, yet. Meanwhile, there will be a presentation by two officers from the U.S. Navy at this year's SigAda conference demonstrating a system developed using GtkAda that runs on Linux as well as on NT. In fact, the way this system was designed, it will run on any system where GtkAda is available. A demonstration version of this software will probably be fielded, at sea, soon on a Linux laptop to see what else is required to make it a viable tool. Someone told me recently that he thought avoiding the use of any Microsoft product in favor of Linux or MacIntosh was an act of patriotism. Interesting idea, though probably a bit over the top. Personally, I would like to see IBM resurrect OS/2 since it seems more secure than anything Microsoft has at present or projected for the future. Richard Riehle richard@adaworks.com http://www.adaworks.com