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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:05:59 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock
Message-ID:  <D7D1BA4D-2895-41FD-B1D4-076B9EEC36C9@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200706112058.l5BKwPlx075956@lava.sentex.ca>
References:  <468d29450706110830k5faf022n9a417157bcf3f544@mail.gmail.com> <002b01c7ac50$6cd44400$467ccc00$@ca> <7F6FEDFB-EB48-4882-B033-5026EB037641@mac.com> <200706112058.l5BKwPlx075956@lava.sentex.ca>

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On Jun 11, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 04:54 PM 6/11/2007, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> this unfortunate event by reordering instructions if needed, but if
>> you wrote your own assembly, you could in fact do a hardware DDoS if
>> you weren't careful.  :-)
>
> Hi,
>         I thought DDoS = _Distributed_ Denial of Service where  
> multiple attacking devices gang up to attack a host.

Yes, it is.

>   Is your example not just a plain old Denial of Service (DoS) ?

Yes, as it stands.  But if you ship this code to other machines,  
perhaps it would then qualify as being _Distributed_....?  :-) / 2

-- 
-Chuck




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