Proposal: Add the unordered-containers package and the hashable package to the Haskell Platform

Bardur Arantsson spam at scientician.net
Wed Mar 20 18:45:23 GMT 2013


On 03/20/2013 07:40 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> On 03/20/2013 07:14 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
> >Hash flooding is only one of many ways to DoS a server. You can try other
> >things, like building a bot net and trying to flood the connection.
> 
> Sure, but that's another step up in difficulty from using a single
> client to DoS a server trivially.
> 

I should also add: Whatever DDoS protections your ISP may (or may not)
have in place does nothing to protect you if your host has a DoS
vulnerability which is exploitable with a single connection.





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