RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick () cybernothing org>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:

> No deeper motive need be applied to this than "ActiveX sucks, and I'm gonna 
> show 'em" or "wow, look what I can do if I combine these two script-kiddie 
> exploits I found on rootshell.com" or "oh, yeah?  Prove it."  The latter 
> being the driving force behind many destructive hacks over the years.
>
> Until we have enough facts, Occam's Razor isn't very useful, but it would 
> seem to exclude government-backed weirdness.

You misunderstand. I am in no way suggesting that such activities are
"government-backed." 

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