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Sun Grid DOS'd

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it dept.

feronti writes "So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "

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  1. Denial of Service, abbreviated DoS by poopie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Let's keep things straight - three are enough confusing three letter acronyms.

    Denial of Service is still worth writing out. Most wanna-be geeks see the three letters "dos" in any capitalization combination and think of Microsoft Disk Operating system.

    Slashdot story submitters should know the difference between DOS and DoS, but due to the stupid l33tsp33k crud, nobody takes capitalization seriously.

    I think that outside of security or incident response venues, denial of service should be written in full and not abbreviated.