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Humorous DNS Education from Netcraft

by Tim O'Reilly
Feb. 1, 2004
URL: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/01/30/wwwscocom_is_a_weapon_of_mass_destruction.html

In a very clever and very funny article about how SCO could respond to the DDOS attack in the MyDoom worm, Mike Prettejohn of Netcraft also does a wonderful job of education about the possibilities in a single DNS command. This is the hack mindset at its best, seeing a world of implications where an ordinary user can only follow the directions.

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