[27183] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Info on the DoS attacks.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Wed Feb 9 22:40:46 2000
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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 22:34:26 -0500
To: Rodney Caston <largo@megatokyo.com>
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@wired.com>
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From my perspective, corporations are filtering information through
clueless PR flacks to a (relatively clueless) media. I can't buy that sites
hit by an attack 48 hours ago "have no idea what is going on." If that's
the case, some people need to be fired real quick.
-Declan
At 21:24 2/9/2000 -0600, Rodney Caston wrote:
>It's because people are being very closed mouthed with this, the corps
>either have no idea what is going on or do not wish to share what they
>know, and those involved with the attacks have done a good job of keeping
>silent. Besides comparing Morris's worm to what is going on now is hardly
>fair, the net was a very different place then, and his cpu cycle hog of a
>program was alot easier to deal with and detect.
