From: Christopher Whipple (crw@well.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 12:15:29 MST
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 03:58 AM, Dan Fabulich wrote:
> Avatar Polymorph wrote:
>
>> 1.
>> INCREASED FUNDING FOR CANCER RESEARCH.
>
> 1. I WISH I HAD MORE MONEY
> (I'D SPEND IT IN REALLY GOOD WAYS)
>
I wouldn't want to advocate anything illegal on a public forum - but
this in conjunction with a recent work issue gave me a fun idea for
activism. I work at an ISP and I recently bore witness to a
distributed denial-of-service attack. A handful of our clients across
the country who were running in unprotected-MS mode all simultaneously
launched a DoS against some poor IP in Canada.
But it got me thinking... what would I do if I had unfettered access to
(presumably) dozens of insecure machines? Why bother with a DoS attack
when I could do something productive like install a SETI@Home client -
or something that will donate spare cycles to help finding the cure for
cancer?
Grassroots campaigns involving technology interest me because they
sometimes allow you to sidestep the need for money.
-crw.
http://crw.lucifer.com
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