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 03:24:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!newsfeed.Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.kpnqwest.at!newsfeed.wu-wien.ac.at!not-for-mail From: Markus Mottl 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 10:24:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria Message-ID: <9m0193$grs$1@bird.wu-wien.ac.at> References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <87n15lxzzv.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B672322.B5EA1B66@home.com> <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <3B834E5D.B0D26AB1@adaworks.com> <9lvsic$bet9s$1@ID-9852.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: miss.wu-wien.ac.at X-Trace: bird.wu-wien.ac.at 998475875 17276 137.208.107.17 (22 Aug 2001 10:24:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-admin@wu-wien.ac.at NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:24:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981225 ("Volcane") (UNIX) (OSF1/V4.0 (alpha)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12211 comp.lang.c:76075 comp.lang.c++:84782 comp.lang.functional:7610 Date: 2001-08-22T10:24:35+00:00 List-Id: In comp.lang.functional Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Could you share a reference to a report? Here is a somewhat longer treatment of the case: http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/Yorktown.html In short: a divide-by-zero in a database caused a Windows NT server to crash, paralyzing the whole computer network on the cruiser Yorktown for more than two hours. As usual, official reports (i.e. by the Navy itself) that indicate shortcomings of their weapon technology do not circulate for too long for obvious reasons (but maybe they are just hidden well enough). There are plenty of serious media that report on the case, e.g. Government Computing News: http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/december14/39.htm http://www.gcn.com/vol18_no36/com/903-1.html > The "more official", the better (there are people who need convincing). The inofficial ones are funny, too: http://www.atlas-club.com.au/jokes/aviation/jokesav2.htm The frightening about some jokes is that they seem so realistic ;) Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl