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: 2001-08-02 14:02:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: cross@augusta.math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) 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: 2 Aug 2001 16:55:00 -0400 Organization: Mememememememmeme Message-ID: <9kcen4$bbu@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <9kc355$ri0$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: augusta.math.psu.edu X-Trace: boatanchor.ems.psu.edu 996785701 9847 146.186.132.2 (2 Aug 2001 20:55:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: security@psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Aug 2001 20:55:01 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11141 comp.lang.c:71750 comp.lang.c++:79476 comp.lang.functional:7227 Date: 2001-08-02T20:55:01+00:00 List-Id: In article , Goran Larsson wrote: >What made the Ariane design team take the view that "software should be >considered correct until it is shown to be at fault"? Fooled by to much >trust in Ada? You apparantly assume that's the case. Well, you know what they say when you assume something. - Dan C.