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Worst Bug or Shortcomings in a Standard?

Posted by Cliff on from the needed-more-time-on-the-drawing-board dept.

Alastair asks: "Just curious what the Slashdot crowd thinks are the worst bugs ever to creep into a standard? For mine, the various security vulnerabilities in WEP would make the grade. Also perhaps the lack of a protocol field in HDLC, and which most implementations added in a non-compatible way. I'm thinking here about bugs which result in partial or total irrelevance of the standard itself, as opposed to just a lack of interest in adopting it."

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  1. Re:"Referer" by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    *sigh*, another sad victim of Referer Madness.

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  2. Re:TCP, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, ... by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    My wall sockets have little security either. At most there's a fuse, breaker or penny for protection. No user authentication or load request handshaking and management. It's shocking.

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