Comment wrong headline here: b'cse Verio silences the ISP (Score 1) 92
Should probably read: DOW threatens Verio, Verio silences ISP of activists.
Instead of shutting down a single activist site (which would have been bad enough), they killed a whole network in some kind of a legal Denial of Service attack.
In this process, they disturbed the businesses of various clients of thing.net, destroyed some digital artworks and disabled for several hours my private email account (naughty, naughty; but should I sue DOW and Verio for my bounced love mails?).
Better be aware: your ISP could be the next target of some corporate DoS attack. So you better open up an AOL account, just in case ...
Instead of shutting down a single activist site (which would have been bad enough), they killed a whole network in some kind of a legal Denial of Service attack.
In this process, they disturbed the businesses of various clients of thing.net, destroyed some digital artworks and disabled for several hours my private email account (naughty, naughty; but should I sue DOW and Verio for my bounced love mails?).
Better be aware: your ISP could be the next target of some corporate DoS attack. So you better open up an AOL account, just in case
