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Researcher's Death Hampers TCP Flaw Fix

Posted by timothy on from the sad-news-and-bad-news dept.

linuxwrangler writes "Security researcher Jack Louis, who had discovered several serious security flaws in TCP software was killed in a fire on the ides of March, dealing a blow to efforts to repair the problem. Although he kept good notes and had communicated with a number of vendors, he died before fixes could be created and prior to completing research on a number of additional vulnerabilities. Much of the work has been taken over by Louis' friend and long-time colleague Robert E. Lee. The flaws have been around for a long time and would allow a low-bandwidth 'sockstress' attack to knock large machines off the net."

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  1. Robert E. Lee by verbalcontract · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Was it necessary to refer to his colleague as Robert E. Lee? Now we're going to get a ton of "South will rise again" jokes.

  2. Re:Come on... by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Screw off you insensitive clod.

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  3. What the fuck by Godji · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So a good scientist dies and all Slashdotters can do is attempt whoring out a +5 Funny with lame jokes?

    My high regard for the Slashdot community is obviously misguided.

    It's a great loss for the research community and my condolences go to his family. And really, that's a nasty way to go... :(

    1. Re:What the fuck by Tridus · · Score: 3, Insightful

      People react in different ways to news like this. There's nothing wrong with making jokes, especially since a lot of us had no idea who he was.

      200 posts of "my condolonces" doesn't make for interesting reading.

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    2. Re:What the fuck by maxume · · Score: 5, Insightful

      150,000 strangers died today. Picking 5 of them and feeling bad about it is awful damn close to insanity.

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