I had never heard of "fork bomb" until now. According to Wikipedia, it's somewhat preventable by implementing a limit of the number of processes per user.
I like the fact that Knoboo makes it easy to run the actual Sage processes on a completely different machine or at least in a virtual machine. At some point Knoboo might have a system for dealing with down kernel servers where one can still access and download notebooks. Would the entire Sage Notebook be ran in a VMWare image or the individual Sage per sage unix user processes inside their own? So like sage0 would have a virtual machine, sage1 would have its own, etc. On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Martin Albrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 13 October 2008, William Stein wrote: >> Hello, >> >> A security researcher decided to purposely take down sage.math to >> demonstrate that it is possible to fork bomb the machine through the >> public sage notebook servers. > > Those 'security researchers' are also known as script kiddies. > > Well it had to happen eventually. > > Cheers, > Martin > > -- > name: Martin Albrecht > _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8EF0DC99 > _www: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~malb > _jab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
