Haha thanks for sharing. Interesting how much emphasis there is on "the ping of death" compared to literally any other exploit. Does anyone know if this was really such a big problem when this video came out?
Also, with the ping of death, the only way to use it was to very noticeably crash systems -- not to secretly build a botnet or something, as might have been done with RCE vulnerabilities.
It wasn't super notable. What was more horrific was the amount of windows machines that had tcp ports for various windows services open to the internet that led to not only crashing but remote compromise and rootkits/botnet stuff. That went on for years and only got mitigated by people deploying routers with fw/Nat functionality.
But I do remember AppleTalk causing issues more frequently on a network I helped manage that had radio studios with two Macs per studio, but mostly Windows PCs through the rest of the building.
That place also had a Macintosh 512K running its phone system until around 2010!