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Security Experts Doubt SCO's Claims of DoS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the raising-a-lot-of-eyebrows dept.

devilkin writes "As a recent Slashdot story indicates, SCO claims their website was the target of a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. Was it really? The people at Groklaw think otherwise..."

6 of 510 comments (clear)

  1. Blast it... by herrvinny · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a dupe, or at least 90% of one. There are a thousand links from the previous slashdot discussion to Groklaw, like this, this, and this, not to mention this, plus this and most definitely this. And many of those are rated +5 as well.

    On a side note, I can't access SCO's website or ftp site from University of Wisc @ Madison computers.

    I'm going to go update scoreport.com now... (Link in my sig)

  2. SCO Wasn't A DoS Victim, by Goody · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But Groklaw was....

    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /public/private/groklaw/system/databases/mysql.cla ss.php on line 108 Cannnot connect to DB server

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    Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
  3. now thats a DoS attack by SQLz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /public/private/groklaw/system/databases/mysql.cla ss.php on line 108
    Cannnot connect to DB server

  4. DOS, you say? by 1984 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /public/private/groklaw/system/databases/mysql.cla ss.php on line 108
    Cannnot connect to DB server

    Seems at Groklaw they know something about DOS after all.

  5. god bless ./ by castlec · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /public/private/groklaw/system/databases/mysql.cla ss.php on line 108 Cannnot connect to DB server

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    When I tell an object to delete this, am I killing it or telling it to kill me?
  6. Ack, someone is DoSing Groklaw by An+ominous+Cow+art · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh, wait- that's us...