RE: First a Denial of Service, Now A Lawsuit: The MillionDollar Homepage

["Randy Abrams" <abrams () eset com>]

Would that be the extortionist that is now trying to sue? 


You can give the stooges feedback t http://www.netnutri.com/feedback.htm

Cheers,

Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Hank Nussbacher
> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:20 PM
> To: Fergie
> Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: Re: [funsec] First a Denial of Service, Now A 
> Lawsuit: The MillionDollar Homepage
>
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Fergie wrote:
>
> What an idiot!  Doesn't he realize that the DDOS attack has 
> generated so much more press that he is probably seeing 3x 
> more hits whenever the site is up.
>
> -Hank
>
> > I guess this kid just can't catch a break. At least he's got the 
> > moolah. :-)
> >
> > Via the C|Net Security blog.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > After being hit by a denial of service attack that downed 
> the Million Dollar Homepage site, British student Alex Tew 
> now faces a lawsuit from one of the advertisers on the site.
> > The winner of the last 1,000 pixels, which sold for 
> US$38,100 on eBay, is threatening to sue because the Web site 
> was offline for six days until Wednesday, the Financial Times 
> reported in its online edition on Thursday.
> > [snip]
> >
> > More:
> > http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6029020.html
> >
> > - ferg
> >
> >
> > --
> > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> >  Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or 
> > fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech blog: 
> > http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
> >
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