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From: merriman@ccavax.camb.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:
Message-ID: <30273.26c33972@ccavax.camb.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 22:47:14 EDT
References: <1826@mountn.dec.com> <49041@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.
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In article <49041@seismo.CSS.GOV>, 
    stead@beno.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
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> Who could possibly care
> that a random instruction sequence crashes a risc box? 

Some villain wanting to mount a denial-of-service attack.
And if certain strange instruction sequences can bypass the operating
system and hardware protections which are supposed to prevent this sort
of thing, perhaps there are other sequences which will do even more insidious
things, like allow a guest account to become superuser. 
Remember the Internet Worm.
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> 
> Richard Stead
> stead@seismo.css.gov

George Merriman
(I hope my bank does not use unix to keep track of MY money!)