[Mimedefang] Re: Lycos Screen saver that attacks Spammers, Ah more off topic...

Randy Hammock repeater at wr6jpl.ampr.org
Sun Dec 5 20:11:53 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 05:05, Ian Mitchell wrote:

> Lycos is right in what they are choosing to do, they are not hacking into
> other services, they are simply utilizing publicly accessible services on
> a voluntary basis. The morality of what Lycos is doing is very similar to
> the morality of P2P networks. Both are brilliantly conceived solutions to
> dilemmas presented by the Internet as a whole. However, they both have
> dark side consequences that make people think...

Lycos Screen Saver / Legal Zombies? Just wait until someone figures out
how to hack all those Lycos zombies out there to perform DDoS's. What
makes one zombie legal and another illegal?

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