Re: Distributed spam-based DoS in progress

[Kee Hinckley <nazgul () somewhere com>]

At 8:25 PM -0500 2/17/03, Transistor Sister wrote:
> bounced back to the originating host. The nature of the messages are so
> varied that they may have been taken from a spam archive somewhere.

One theory I've heard on this is that the script kiddies are using 
spam for DoS attacks under the (probably correct) assumption that if 
you report it to the relevant authorities they will dismiss it as 
"just being spam."  This was from someone who had in fact tried to 
report such a DoS attack and received just that response.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.puremessaging.com/        Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/   Writings on Technology and Society

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.

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