[83269] in Cypherpunks
Re: Censorware Summit Take II, from The Netly News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Thu Jul 17 17:21:11 1997
In-Reply-To: <19970717085138.30752@bywater.songbird.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 13:27:13 -0700
To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
>> These suggests that Yahoo, Excite, and Lycos might become tempting targets
>> of a Net-wide DoS attack until they repent.
>
>It also suggests a far more intelligent course of action, namely
>setting up a competing, non-rating, search engine somewhere else. It
>would soon become more popular than Yahoo etc -- a tremendous
>business opportunity.
With the right timing both might be much more effective. Sorta like the
recent InterNIC NDS theft (see my separate posting).
--Steve
