[iwar] Historical posting
From: Fred Cohen
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
Seems to me the "world's formost expert" would be the writer(s) of the code.
My only remaining question then is why is the FBI wasting time on that
Mixter person, if Mr. Dittrich holds the titile ;-) ?
Rob Blader
Rob Blader
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Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Div.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Rosenberger [SMTP:us@k...]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 9:14 AM
> To: iwar@onelist.com
> Subject: [iwar] Who's the world's foremost expert on DoS?
>
> From: "Rob Rosenberger" us@k...
>
> The Wall Street Journal asserts Mr. Dave Dittrich is "the world's foremost
> expert on denial-of-service, or D.O.S., attacks." Wow!
>
> I used to acknowledge Dr. Fred Cohen as the world's foremost authority,
> but
> I obviously made a mistake. I naively thought Cohen coined the phrase
> "distributed coordinated attacks" (DCAs) some years back ... yet antivirus
> firms switched to "distributed denial-of-service attacks" (DDoSs) when the
> press latched onto it. Clearly, you did NOT coin DCA as a phrase.
>
> (Did I say antivirus firms? My bad. I meant to include all of the
> computer
> security firms' press releases in my statement.)
>
> My, how the mighty have fallen. Burn your Ph.D., Fred -- you've been
> replaced by "a 38yr-old software engineer at the University of Washington
> whose job is to make sure the campus network runs smoothly." I obviously
> wasted my time in 1997 when I attended one of your DCA lectures...
>
> Rob Rosenberger, webmaster
> Computer Virus Myths home page
> http://www.kumite.com/myths
>
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