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."

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Dang low bus factors!

[mrbene]

Less than a week ago is was Rick752. Now this one. Definitely reinforces the importance of collaboration, and the fragile nature of ideas.