[27164] 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 20:06:46 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:03:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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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."
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