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[Kevin D. Clark]

Ben Scott writes:

>   While still true, there are cases where it's less cut-and-dry: In
> other protocols, I've seen clients do the equivalent of "repeated
> malloc without free".  Of course, the server should place limits on
> resources a client can allocate, but some people consider that kind of
> thing to be not a "bug" in the server, because it's "working as
> designed".  To which I say: http://tinyurl.com/ye3tkmd

The way that I try to design protocols and systems is to assume that
the entity at other end of the connection might be some infinitely bad
thing that is looking to take down the system.  Kind of like Postel's
Law, but worse.

If the system is designed and implemented in this way, then I sleep
well at night...

--kevin
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