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Re: Impending (mydoom) DOS attack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Fri Jan 30 19:39:44 2004

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:39:08 -0500
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
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In a message written on Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:18:05PM -0800, Donovan Hill=
 wrote:
> I think we should help out SCO by creating new wildcard entries into our =
DNS=20
> servers that point *.sco.com to 127.0.0.1 as well as blackholing all SCO=
=20
> SWIPd IP Address Space.

I'm going to be one of the last people who will defend SCO recent
actions.  However, as much as I hate, and hate is the word, SCO I
feel the need to speak up after your comments.

Bruce Perens has said it far better than I ever could at
http://perens.com/SCO/DOS/.  Please read what he has to say.

We (Open Source, ISPs, etc) must, MUST, come to SCO's defense on
this one.  I am doing what I can with my employer to do just that.
Allowing attacks like this to succeed, either directly or indirectly
is far more harmful than allowing SCO to stay online.  We cannot
condone these actions for any reason, the end does not justify the
means in the case of worms.

--=20
       Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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