17 Sep
1996
17 Sep
'96
10:01 p.m.
Currently, anyone can program their computer to repeatedly dial a given business phone line and fill up a company's inbound phone lines, making a denial of service attack. Why isn't the phone system about to die because of it?
Actually the phone system does periodically die from this. Just ask the White House switchboard operators about it. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation