Kiss-o'-death packets?

Mon Oct 6 18:40:04 UTC 2003

E.B. Dreger wrote:
> HTTP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient
> checking.  Thus HTTP is a bad idea.
>
> SMTP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient
> checking.  Thus SMTP is a bad idea.
>
> SNMP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient
> checking.  Thus SNMP is a bad idea.
>
> Come to think of it, IP stacks have had vulnerabilities due to
> insufficient checking.  IP is a bad idea, too.

No, please do not twist my words; I referrred to poor implementations of
good ideas. Nowhere did I say that the protocol is bad as a result of poor
implementations.

Peter