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First terrorist attack targeted toward the Internet??




Topic started on 23-10-2002 @ 07:11 AM by William


www.washingtonpost.com...

Distributed Denial of Service.

Sophisticated and nasty.



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reply posted on 24-10-2002 @ 01:00 AM by Estragon1


Some very interesting titbits in the article, William -but on close reading the actual article is surprisingly non-committal and vague.
I came across the story first elsewhere and my immediate reaction was "someone is practising something".



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reply posted on 24-10-2002 @ 01:53 AM by MidnightDStroyer


Agreed...This seemed to be more of a "test-run" of somebody wanting to gauge the abilities of the internet servers than it did to be an actual attack.

...Maybe in the short-term future, I won't have to pay an internet bill because it would still be illegal for them to collect my money for a period of "non-service"...


However, it does seem to inspire a bit of hope that the net servers would be prepared to repel an actual attack in the future...Because all this "test-run" really accomplished was to warn those servers-admins to beef up their security more & to set up alternate routing services.


[Edited on 24-10-2002 by MidnightDStroyer]



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