Re: Denial of Service Attacks & the Nets

[Grant Bayley <gbayley@ausmac.net>]

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I'm intrigued to know why people like Janet Reno and media organisations
aren't using terms like "attackers" or "saboteurs" in this instance.
After all, someone is attacking someone else and it would appear that
someone is attempting to sabotage aspects of certain businesses.

In the absence of evidence that this is caused by a specific hacking
organisation, group or individual prepared to accept responsibility, I
think the term "hacker" is again (*sigh*) being misused.

Grant

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Grant Bayley                         gbayley@ausmac.net
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, rhiann3n wyrcat wrote:

> "Attorney General Janet Reno announces that the FBI has
> launched a criminal investigation into the wave of
> hacker attacks that have disrupted systems at major Web
> sites."
> 
> http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?recid=1586&action=Preview&brequest=index&mstatus=0&avr=1
> 


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