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Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Thu Jul 31 14:31:31 2003

From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi> 
	of "Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:09:34 +0300."
	<015001c3578e$e7326d00$812a40c1@PETEX31> 
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:30:12 +0000
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> However, since improvements are always welcome, please recommend tools
> which would allow us to progress "above and beyond" C and it's deficencies.

I've never been able to program a buffer overrun vulnerability in Modula 3,
or Perl, or any version of Lisp or Scheme.  It's possible that the physics
has advanced enough that "low level programming" now costs more than it saves.

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