RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
As co-moderator emeritus of Fidonet's CONSPRCY echo, I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but let's get real, folks. No deeper motive need be applied to this than "ActiveX sucks, and I'm gonna show 'em" or "wow, look what I can do if I combine these two script-kiddie exploits I found on rootshell.com" or "oh, yeah? Prove it." The latter being the driving force behind many destructive hacks over the years. Until we have enough facts, Occam's Razor isn't very useful, but it would seem to exclude government-backed weirdness. At 10:37 AM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote:
It would make one hell of an excuse for those wishing more government(s) involvement/control....
Okay, who told you to say that? ;-) -- James Smith, CCNA Chief Network/System Administrator DXSTORM.COM http://www.dxstorm.com/ DXSTORM Inc. 2140 Winston Park Drive, Suite 203 Oakville, ON, CA L6H 5V5 Tel: 905-829-3389 (email preferred) Fax: 905-829-5692 1-877-DXSTORM (1-877-397-8676) It's Unix or nothing! On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:
As co-moderator emeritus of Fidonet's CONSPRCY echo, I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but let's get real, folks.
No deeper motive need be applied to this than "ActiveX sucks, and I'm gonna show 'em" or "wow, look what I can do if I combine these two script-kiddie exploits I found on rootshell.com" or "oh, yeah? Prove it." The latter being the driving force behind many destructive hacks over the years.
Until we have enough facts, Occam's Razor isn't very useful, but it would seem to exclude government-backed weirdness.
At 10:37 AM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote:
It would make one hell of an excuse for those wishing more government(s) involvement/control....
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:
No deeper motive need be applied to this than "ActiveX sucks, and I'm gonna show 'em" or "wow, look what I can do if I combine these two script-kiddie exploits I found on rootshell.com" or "oh, yeah? Prove it." The latter being the driving force behind many destructive hacks over the years.
Until we have enough facts, Occam's Razor isn't very useful, but it would seem to exclude government-backed weirdness.
You misunderstand. I am in no way suggesting that such activities are "government-backed." /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Patrick Greenwell Earth is a single point of failure. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
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