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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no 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: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 06:32:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional From: Ted Dennison 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> Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:31:51 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:31:51 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12221 comp.lang.c:76110 comp.lang.c++:84816 comp.lang.functional:7619 Date: 2001-08-22T13:31:51+00:00 List-Id: In article , Larry Kilgallen says... > >In article <3b83847d.1117251944@news.worldonline.nl>, info@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) writes: >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 ? :-) Well, the software in question was the marine (engine) control system. It had nothing to do with the weapon systems. I suppose you could get rammed... --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com