[27124] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Wed Feb 9 14:23:22 2000
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 14:08:13 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
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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....
