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echo: osdebate
to: Glenn Meadows
from: Tony Williams
date: 2006-11-12 10:08:52
subject: Re: Attack the spammers

From: Tony Williams 

Glenn Meadows wrote:
> From reading that article, I don't think this applies.  It doesn't actually
> swap the sites, it actually files valid orders, it's just the info is fake.
>
> I think of DOS attacks as making sites unavailable by swamping their servers
> so that others can't connect.  This tool doesn't seem to do that, it delays
> between 4 and 20 seconds between each order placement attempt.
>

I think it could be argued either way and probably will be before too long, in court.

FWIW, I'm not best pleased with the law as worded.

--
Tony

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