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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