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DHS Injects Itself With DDoS

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the shooting-their-own-feet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a story about what can happen to any enterprise IT department that overestimates the intelligence of its users. Only in this case, the enterprise in question is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The spokesman says there's no Jack Bauer mentality. No kidding!"

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  1. Listserv Idiocy by astrotek · · Score: 5, Informative

    lol, happened at college all the time

    you get 5-6 idiots that reply to all
    then you get 50-60 idiots telling them not to reply to all
    and 50-60 more idiots trying to have a conversation to the first 5-6 idiots

    1. Re:Listserv Idiocy by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 3, Informative

      Try thousands.

      Microsoft had an email storm that took down companywide email

  2. Re:DDoS? by omeomi · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah, a mailing list with a lot of people hitting "reply all" really isn't the same as a DDoS attack...it's just a mailing list with a lot of people hitting "reply all"

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