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* [[Hollerith]] | * [[Hollerith]] | ||
* [[Killer Poke]] - software defect and contract killer for hire. | * [[Killer Poke]] - software defect and contract killer for hire. | ||
* [[Malvoleum]] - an evil grease derived from [[Sweet, sweet crude oil]]. | |||
* [[Murder, Incorporated 1.1]] | * [[Murder, Incorporated 1.1]] | ||
* [[One If By Good, Zero If By Evil]] | * [[One If By Good, Zero If By Evil]] | ||
Revision as of 11:38, 20 July 2016
The evil bit is a fictional IPv4 packet header field proposed in RFC 3514, a humorous April Fools' Day RFC from 2003 authored by Steve Bellovin.
The RFC recommended that the last remaining unused bit in the IPv4 packet header be used to indicate whether a packet had been sent with malicious intent, thus making computer security engineering an easy problem -- simply ignore any messages with the evil bit set.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Carnevale Tenebre
- Gnomon Algorithm
- Hollerith
- Killer Poke - software defect and contract killer for hire.
- Malvoleum - an evil grease derived from Sweet, sweet crude oil.
- Murder, Incorporated 1.1
- One If By Good, Zero If By Evil
- Ticketology
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Evil bit @ Wikipedia