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Subject: Re: DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock
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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