Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers

RE: Hollywood's new lesson for campus file swappers: I wonder how long it'll be before someone uses this program to carry out a D.O.S. attack on students ? Simply forge some emails claiming to be a movie studio and tagging their IP and voila the system automatically disconnects them without the attacker having to hack a single computer.; Posted by: agredon Posted on: 11/15/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Blows to be a student... DarbyOhara | 04/19/04

This a great thing voska | 04/19/04

True, but... PapaG | 04/19/04

This is the old RIAA/MPAA? cybershoplifter | 04/19/04

Encryption Benny4022 | 04/19/04

Probably been done. doe_z | 04/19/04

Valenti is an army of one AbsolutelyNot | 04/19/04

Bad Juju and a Bad Precedent bluezoo7@... | 04/21/04

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