[118246] in Cypherpunks
Re: KISA Attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Sep 22 19:43:31 1999
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:59:47 -0400
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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At 3:22 PM -0700 on 9/22/99, Greg Broiles wrote:
> 2. "Teergrube" (sp?) - I believe the word is German, and refers to
> intentionally slowing something down.
Right!
Way back in the way back, like when Altavista started crawling the
web, there was a post here about some folks at Sandia? Los Alamos?
who had built just such a "spider trap".
You clicked on the link, and, hear tell, your browser just sat there,
and sat there, and...
Cheers,
RAH
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