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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-02 14:11:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!shale.ftech.net!news.ftech.net!diablo.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <8766c7h2zm.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <5m0a7.21097$Kd7.13099003@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <87r8uvuu48.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: <9hja7.1803$tQ5.728008@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 22:06:15 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.10.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 996786373 62.253.10.3 (Thu, 02 Aug 2001 22:06:13 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 22:06:13 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11143 Date: 2001-08-02T22:06:15+01:00 List-Id: "Florian Weimer" wrote in message news:87r8uvuu48.fsf@deneb.enyo.de... > tmoran@acm.org writes: > > >> > Of course they also depend on not using hardware designed with > >> > security in mind. > >> > >> Could you elaborate on that, please? > > In the '60s and '70s there was quite a lot of work on "descriptors" or > > "capabilities" based architectures. The Burroughs machines (often used by > > banks, interestingly) used those techniques. > > Ah, I see. Here's an interesting resource: > > http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/papers/B5000.html That is just plain rediculous! What a lot of s**t! I cannot gain access to it simply because I'm an IE user!