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Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way

  • From: Steve Sobol
  • Date: Tue Jun 16 23:29:00 1998

> >Not really.  The best approach is to nail a few of these folks with felony
> >indictments for the denial of service attacks, and the theft of the
> >amplifier network's services.  That would stop this practice cold.
> 
> Unfortunantly I highly doubt this will have much impact. Firstly, all of the
> "smurf kiddies" are using hacked shells, so when you trace it back to them
> they don't care, they just move to the next machine. Secondly, the most

I think the main issue is -- or should be -- getting AMPLIFIERS to fix
their problem first.

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