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Researcher's Death Hampers TCP Flaw Fix
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."
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.
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...