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Re: amazonaws.com?


From: Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 12:44:47 -0400


On May 29, 2008 at 06:46 joelja () bogus com (Joel Jaeggli) wrote:
Dorn Hetzel wrote:
Yeah, there was a day when anyone could buy a pickup truck full of 
ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a random feed store and not attract any 
attention at all, now, maybe not.  Just like port 25, it has plenty of 
legitimate uses, and some more problematic ones.

Equating port 25 use with domestic terrorism is specious.

Ammonium nitrate requires requires some care in handling regardless of 
your intentions,see for exmple the oppau or texas city disasters.

And how different is that from the million+ strong zombie botnets? Who
owns (not pwns) those zombie'd systems and what were their intentions?

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