On Monday 11 June 2001 05:30, you wrote:
> By which I mean, let's all (all 200+ of us) simply "unsubscribe" from the
> Unknown-Narcissist list at <[log in to unmask]> by sending the
> usual e-mail to that effect (or multiple copies of it, if "listees" prefer)
> and, ideally, simultaneously.
Candice,
This tactic could be called cyber-terrorism. . . also a DoS attack (denial of
service attack to translate the weird computer talk of techno geeks).
Unfortunately, assuming the numbers are sufficient, you would probably crash
the hotmail server along with kent. . .
However, the easier way to undertake such an attack is not to have all the
people sit on their computers and do it at the same time but to collect all
participants emails into a file, at your leisure, write a shell script with
cron on a hacked university network, which can also make multiple multiple
copies, and let it fly. The programmed shell script will do it all for you.
(You could also hack some DNS servers using an old version of bind to
increase the numbers... plenty of them around, BTW.)
perhaps others have more experience in hacking and I can stand corrected.
Chris Jones
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