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From: "Joachim Durchholz" <joachim_d@gmx.de>
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 14:34:54 +0200
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Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> wrote:
> In comp.lang.functional Joachim Durchholz <joachim_d@gmx.de> 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).

Hmm. Looks as if NT wasn't really responsible, the thing was still under
test.

Regards,
Joachim
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