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Re: Can A Web Site Be Reliably Defended Against DoS Attacks?

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• Subject: Re: Can A Web Site Be Reliably Defended Against DoS Attacks?
• From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:00:53 +0000
• Cc: 'Dare Obasanjo' <dareo@m...>,'Rich Salz' <rsalz@d...>,"'Bullard, Claude L (Len)'" <clbullar@i...>,jcowan@r..., xml-dev@l...
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Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> Even back in the 1960s there were systems with rings of protection that
> allowed you to limit the resources that an executable had access to.
> Unix threw all that out in the interests of simplicity and portability.
> 

Check out Trusted Solaris. It gives you a stern warning and requires 
confirmation if you're copying from a window running an application that 
has access to sensitive information to a window running an application 
that is physicaly capable of writing information in places where 
sensitive information shouldn't end up :-)

> Michael Kay

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