Re: Hacking the vote (literally)

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:33:02 EST, Dude VanWinkle said:
> Weird, it doesn't seem like much could be accomplished by taking down
> a politicians site the day of the elections. Makes me think this was
> either done by a moron, or someone who was just sending a message..

It's possible to be too stupid to vote, but still smart enough to launch
a DDoS attack with a point-n-drool interface.  Fortunately for the net and
unfortunately for democracy, most of those people were too busy voting
yesterday to point-n-drool.  Hopefully they were also too busy to reproduce.

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