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Internet Meltdown Predicted for Tomorrow
Kobalt writes "A few news services are reporting that Russian computer expert, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs, has predicted that a large chunk of the Internet will be shut down tomorrow by cyber terrorists."
. . .seeing "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." when I clicked on the story really was rather amusing.
.unless you're with the FBI or something. In that case I never said a word.
Oh, and I predict that terrorists will redirect an asteroid into Detroit (well, we can dream, can't we?) on the day after tomorrow. Remember, if it comes true you heard from me first. .
KFG
Maybe M$ releasing SP2 to Windows Update tomorrow.
Slashdot won't be targeted. Only a fool would target slashdot and cause all the geeks in the world to have time in which they can stop an attack. Instead they will ensure slashdot is up and running so that there can be many posts about how this site or that site is down so if they are about to come back up they will be feeling the slashdot effect. So seriously if anything any organized DoS attack will have slashdot as their allie not make a front end attack.
Long live the effects of slashdot.
Seems more like Microsoft releasing the service pack for Windows XP via Windows Update/Automatic Update.
SP2 has been available for a week or two (there was a link posted on Slashdot to the download page) to (I think) business and netadmins. My guess is that black hat hackers have found some holes and are perched to launch new exploits. That's the only meltdown I can conceive at the moment.
did you check the disclaimer ???
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What ? Me, worry ?
Here's the plan, we all agree on a set time to blast Slashdot.org with wget in mirroring mode, and make it clear that it won't stop until the color scheme changes.
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