People are the weakest link in security. I'm just a junior workin on dual Bachelor's and then going for my master's and one thing that has remained constant, the human factor.

ya'll can argue over the best products all day long, but those products won't be as effictive or as efficient as their potential states them to be without someone at the helm who knows what they're doing.

I just thought I'd remind ya'll of the human factor in security, as this section was starting to look like a metaphorical cock fight between firewalls and such.

I Don't think it would be wrong for Taco to keep the link active.
Joe could Temporarily take down his server, remove the stuff getting slashdotted, write a CGI that sends a small error message and apology to 99/100 requests that have slashdot as the referer.
Joe has Lots of Options here.
I think that if you can't stop people from doing something (linking, copying a DVD, whatever) in Code (or otherwise technologically) Maybe you shouldd't be trying to stop them.(As opposed to having the courts back up your useless code)