Re: [sage-devel] Denial of Service attack on Sage servers

2009-11-25 Thread William Stein
Mitesh Patrl already nicely implemented this for the sage notebook (in a plethora of ways). I should enable this on sagenb.org. On 11/25/09, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > It would appear to me that it would be very easy for a "script kiddie" to > write > a a program which created huge numbers of accou

[sage-devel] Denial of Service attack on Sage servers

2009-11-25 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
It would appear to me that it would be very easy for a "script kiddie" to write a a program which created huge numbers of accounts on a Sage server, perform some CPU intensive computation on them, and bring the system to a near standstill. This is generally known as a denial of service attack.