DDoS in FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE And Problen With The Clock

[Chuck Swiger]

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

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-Chuck