[27119] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Wed Feb 9 13:47:35 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:37:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>,
Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Deepak Jain wrote:
> If we assume that the attacks are being lead by competent attackers, we
> must also assume that their motive could be more complex than just "hah
> hah, let's see if we can make Yahoo disappear." In fact, it could be far
> more interesting than just a technical display of capabilities.
It would make one hell of an excuse for those wishing more government(s)
involvement/control....
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Patrick Greenwell
Earth is a single point of failure.
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