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 ·AT&T DSL Service
1 edit | wowsers just absurd, and kind of sad.
two wrongs don't make a right, they make a very upset botman I guess...
extortionate tactics are not cool...
what strikes me is how much effort has been put into the whole ddos madness. before that buzzword, there was an "online sit-in protest" against the wto site... a java client with 3 rows of 3 windows all hitting 3 wto sites... imagine networks upon networks doing this... the media quickly labeled it an attack, though a voluntary one by tons of people, and it did have an effect. once it was labeled as bad, nobody dared touch it with a ten foot pole. that was 1999... »www.fraw.org.uk/ehippies/papers/op1.html
see also: »www.metroactive.com/papers/sonom···035.html
and ddos is apparently still a major issue despite all the safeguards that have been implemented.
shame these guys caved in the fight against spam. even worse that they got shut down by threats of ddos, totally not cool.
edit: added another link for an article about previous link... |
