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It was also unsurprisingly easy to crash a kernel a decade or two ago.
by teawrecks 4y ago
It was also unsurprisingly easy to crash a kernel a decade or two ago.
- jeffparsons 4y agoI remember a time when you had to be careful to not reveal your IP address to untrusted peers (e.g. on IRC) because a single specially malformed packet called the "Ping of Death" would reliably crash any internet-connected Windows PC. That was a wild time. Nobody talked about security back then. The idea that everything in our lives would eventually run over the internet just wasn't on people's minds.