Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:05:34 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> 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: <20070612030534.GD53222@elvis.mu.org> 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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* Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> [070611 13:58] 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. Is your example > not just a plain old Denial of Service (DoS) ? Well it takes 3 execution pipelines... -- - Alfred Perlstein
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