Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:57:04 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock Message-ID: <200706112058.l5BKwPlx075956@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <7F6FEDFB-EB48-4882-B033-5026EB037641@mac.com> References: <468d29450706110830k5faf022n9a417157bcf3f544@mail.gmail.com> <002b01c7ac50$6cd44400$467ccc00$@ca> <7F6FEDFB-EB48-4882-B033-5026EB037641@mac.com>
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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) ?
---Mike
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