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Re: 'American Idol' Voting Campaign Slammed With DDoS Attack
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 17:08:05 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com> wrote:
A popular but controversial website that asks fans of the hit US TV show "American Idol" to vote for the least talented contestant each week continues to be slammed by a distributed denial-of-service attack, the site's manager has admitted.
Glad to see we are in good hands, people are paying attention to the things that matter -n- all 'dat schtuff...
Funny factoid: More Americans vote for the silly American Idol stuff than do participated in the last Presidential election. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.0 (Build 214) wj8DBQFGD+bvq1pz9mNUZTMRAp37AJ9IaMGqUFYLeDujsxUgx/H5ouQPhwCgvEyg YZnBf0azr+bsfqNiJSi5grU= =JYTQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: 'American Idol' Voting Campaign Slammed With DDoS Attack Fergie (Apr 01)
- Re: 'American Idol' Voting Campaign Slammed With DDoS Attack Brian Loe (Apr 01)