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Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way


From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol () shell nacs net>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:11:44 -0400


Not really.  The best approach is to nail a few of these folks with felony
indictments for the denial of service attacks, and the theft of the
amplifier network's services.  That would stop this practice cold.

Unfortunantly I highly doubt this will have much impact. Firstly, all of the
"smurf kiddies" are using hacked shells, so when you trace it back to them
they don't care, they just move to the next machine. Secondly, the most

I think the main issue is -- or should be -- getting AMPLIFIERS to fix
their problem first.

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