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: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 04:17:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!washdc3-snf1!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) 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: 22 Aug 2001 06:17:23 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: 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> <0sDnZRVkz5qL@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3b83847d.1117251944@news.worldonline.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 998478639 30407 192.135.80.34 (22 Aug 2001 11:10:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:10:39 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12214 comp.lang.c:76082 comp.lang.c++:84794 comp.lang.functional:7613 Date: 2001-08-22T06:17:23-05:00 List-Id: In article <3b83847d.1117251944@news.worldonline.nl>, info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) writes: > Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote: > >> I was under the impression that despite the troubles in the press reports, >> the Navy was taking a full-steam-ahead attitude toward greater dependence >> on Windows NT for such mission-critical roles. > > That is good news. For the rest of us, that is ;->. You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. But it would appear that you are only considering the possibility that if the US Navy aimed at you they might miss. Have you considered the possibility that the US Navy might hit you when they were actually aiming at someone else ? :-)