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RE: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)

  • From: James Smith
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 14:45:46 2000

Okay, who told you to say that? ;-)


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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Shawn McMahon wrote:

> 
> As co-moderator emeritus of Fidonet's CONSPRCY echo, I love a good 
> conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but let's get real, folks.
> 
> No deeper motive need be applied to this than "ActiveX sucks, and I'm gonna 
> show 'em" or "wow, look what I can do if I combine these two script-kiddie 
> exploits I found on rootshell.com" or "oh, yeah?  Prove it."  The latter 
> being the driving force behind many destructive hacks over the years.
> 
> Until we have enough facts, Occam's Razor isn't very useful, but it would 
> seem to exclude government-backed weirdness.
> 
> 
> At 10:37 AM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >It would make one hell of an excuse for those wishing more government(s)
> >involvement/control....
> 
> 
>