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Haha thanks for sharing. Interesting how much emphasis there is on "the ping of death" compared to literally any other exploit. Does anyone know if this was rea

• geerlingguy 6y ago
  I do remember hearing about it causing issues here and there in the 90s/early 00s, but rarely. Never hear about it anymore. But I do remember AppleTalk causing issues more frequently on a network I helped manage that had radio studios with two Macs per studio, but mostly Windows PCs through the rest of the building. That place also had a Macintosh 512K running its phone system until around 2010!
• schoen 6y ago
  What I remember is that the ping of death was extremely surprising in terms of the number of OSes affected, the ease of exploiting it, and the super-noticeable consequence of instantly crashing the target machine. And it came out at a time when there wasn't as much vulnerability research and very few extensively cross-platform vulnerabilities. Also, with the ping of death, the only way to use it was to very noticeably crash systems -- not to secretly build a botnet or something, as might have been done with RCE vulnerabilities.
• kitteh 6y ago
  It was popular for booting people off IRC, but there were other exploits around the same era that did the same such as land and teardrop. It wasn't super notable. What was more horrific was the amount of windows machines that had tcp ports for various windows services open to the internet that led to not only crashing but remote compromise and rootkits/botnet stuff. That went on for years and only got mitigated by people deploying routers with fw/Nat functionality.