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Re: amazonaws.com?

  • From: Barry Shein
  • Date: Thu May 29 12:46:47 2008 
On May 29, 2008 at 06:46 [email protected] (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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        -Barry Shein

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