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: 2001-08-07 14:58:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) 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: 7 Aug 2001 17:58:19 -0400 Organization: Mememememememmeme Message-ID: <9kpo9r$415@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <9kn3n2$shu@augusta.math.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: augusta.math.psu.edu X-Trace: boatanchor.ems.psu.edu 997221500 29631 146.186.132.2 (7 Aug 2001 21:58:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: security@psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Aug 2001 21:58:20 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11536 comp.lang.c:72763 comp.lang.c++:80792 comp.lang.functional:7391 Date: 2001-08-07T21:58:20+00:00 List-Id: In article , wrote: >Well bring on your sources (note: that's source in the journalistic >sense). They weren't my sources. :-) Whoever posted them is free to point to their earlier post or otherwise make the information available again. >> Besides, I certainly think it would be within the scope of the thread >> for you to post examples and sources where this was true (note: that's >> source in the journalistic sense). So.... Feel free to do so. >> Otherwise, what you say is just hearsay, I'm afraid. > >Look for my other post in this thread. Easy of (re)use of components >for major dekstop platforms is for me the most relevant part of the >trade-off. Then you miss the point entirely. - Dan C.