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From: wv9557@yahoo.com (Will)
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
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Date: 12 Aug 2001 00:41:04 -0700
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theory: Ada could have rule the world as a superior language
Fact: it did not

theory: you could have write a better OS than NT, Linux, SunOS with Ada
Fact: there is *NO* Ada OS 

Why dont you Ada lovers go burn your NT, Linux, Sun OS box, because
theses OS are written in C.
See if you are left with an OS to write your Ada application.
Die, Ada, Die.

raj <israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:<ppsemtojqkqsqpfvj1th3mae8b4vu1tg89@4ax.com>...
> Red Code uses a combination of:
> 
> 1. Buffer overflow
> 
> See:
> .ida "Code Red" Worm
> http://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AL20010717.html
> for a recent , readable account see:
> 
>  Win32 Buffer Overflows (Location, Exploitation and Prevention) 
> dark spyrit AKA Barnaby Jack 
> http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=55&a=15
> 
> 2. Disseminated metastasis
> see:
> Distributed Metastasis:
> A Computer Network Penetration Methodology 
> by Andrew J. Stewart 
> 
> http://www.packetfactory.net/papers/Distributed_Metastatis/distributed_metastasis.doc
> or Phrack 55
> http://www.phrack.org/show.php?p=55&a=16
> 
> The buffer overflow occurs because of an old and well known bug in the
> C libraries.
> Using Ada or another modern language like Ocaml or Mozart could have
> prevented this, thus stopping the worm before it infected the very
> first IIS server.