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Comment Re:One of many ways... (Score 1) 166

by Smask (#31142348) Attached to: Was This the First Denial of Service Attack?
In the late 80:s, there were a bug in sunos that generated a kenel panic when you did a rcp (remote copy) to the audio device. The file copied ok until rcp tried to close /dev/audio. Some bloke spoke to his Sun rep. about this. But the rep being an ass, he downed every workstation at the local Sun office (I think it was in Sweden) using a sample from the movie "2001", where HAL says "My mind is going". After that he didn't dare come forward with the bug being afraid of losing his job. I think they fixed it by setting the rights to /dev/audio.
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Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet 475

Posted by samzenpus from the attack-of-the-killer-garlic dept.
DocVM writes "A Nova Scotia farmer is opposing the construction of a microwave tower for fear it will eventually mutate his organic garlic crop. Lenny Levine, who has been planting and harvesting garlic by hand on his Annapolis Valley land since the 1970s, is afraid his organic crop could be irradiated if EastLink builds a microwave tower for wireless high-speed internet access a few hundred meters from his farm."

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