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: 2001-08-03 03:25:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!btnet-peer1!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <8766c7h2zm.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <5m0a7.21097$Kd7.13099003@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> <87r8uvuu48.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <9hja7.1803$tQ5.728008@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> 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: Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 11:20:42 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.149.3 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 996834041 62.252.149.3 (Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:20:41 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 11:20:41 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11185 Date: 2001-08-03T11:20:42+01:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" wrote in message news:9hja7.1803$tQ5.728008@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com... > > "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! Pardon my language, I was somewhat annoyed by that. My appologies, Chris