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> That's because you haven't applied error correction to the signal. Think
> about it a little more from the attacker's perspective...

Error correction? I don't understand.

Isn't having certain applications know the system has crashed and is now fully functional a neccessity, in order to allow them to re-establish connections or clear out resources?

Once eros goes network distributed, won't a signal telling the object that it has been "moved" to another system be neccessary anyways, why not use this same signal?

Besides, what security knowledge could you gather from knowing that the system has been cycled, and is functional again, that you couldn't otherwise gather from watching connections drop. Also a program that stores a timestamp every minute could easily figure out the system it is running on has crashed because there will be a big gap between the current timestamp and the last one.

-Alex

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