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Re: [News] "Burying the truth? Boycott Novell hit by Denial of Service attack"

On Wed, 20 May 2009 07:30:36 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
>   this bit o' wisdom:
> 
>> Burying the truth? Boycott Novell hit by Denial of Service attack
>>
>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/
burying_the_truth_boycott_novell_hit_by_denial_of_service_attack
> 
>    Boycott Novell is one opinionated site. If you think I'm pro-Linux
>    and hard on Microsoft, you haven't been reading Roy Schestowitz, who
>    makes me look as mild as a May day.
>    
> :-D
> 
>    Boycott Novell, which was founded in 2006 in reaction to Novell's
>    partnership with Microsoft, is very popular with about a million hits
>    per month, but it's also made enemies. Enemies who seem to have had
>    enough of Boycott Novell recently launched a DDoS (Distributed Denial
>    of Service) attack, which has almost knocked the site out.
> 
>> I've struggled with it for 3+ days. I'm still restoring data. I needed
>> to set up the account again.
> 
> And they think /we/ are the zealots!
> 
>    In Boycott Novell's case, I strongly suspect that that someone iis a
>    person with a screw loose and a grudge against Schestowitz's strong
>    anti-Microsoft and proprietary software views. If that seems a little
>    bit over-the-top, well, as I just pointed out, it doesn't really
>    require any technical expertise to knock out a Web site. All you need
>    is a grudge and the right contacts.

There are at least 5 non-de-plumes trolls I could suggest as potential 
screw loose cases who would seriously consider doing such a thing. The 
rest of the trolls are too thick!



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