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I remember fixing a bunch of bugs in 1990 because someone started running SATAN against our hosts and there mere act of sending ill-formed requests to various p

I remember fixing a bunch of bugs in 1990 because someone started running SATAN against our hosts and there mere act of sending ill-formed requests to various ports would cause the associated daemons to crash. What's amazing is that this still happens. In half a day I'll bet I could find at least a dozen super popular services that can be crashed by sending random data to one of their network ports using a default configuration.

gdhfgh 7y ago
>SATAN against our hosts oh, well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-36_(missile)
- teddyh 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_for_Analyzing_Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Administrator_Tool_fo...
anon1253 7y ago
That might be worth spending the half a day if you can get some bug bounty money for those bugs!
serf 7y ago
I still wear my SATAN tshirt monthly. Thanks for reminding me that other folks are old, too. I hadn't heard anyone mention it in years.