Hearthlist Digest #411 - Thursday, February 10, 2000
 
Majestic Black Monday
  by "Richard and Patricia Kerr" <[email protected]>
Re: Shutting down the net!
  by "Jim Butchart" <[email protected]>
Re: Majestic cares?
  by "Skip Jackson" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: Majestic Black Monday
From: "Richard and Patricia Kerr" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:45:36 -0500
 
If it's any help at all, we've received good, often excellent, service =
from
Anne and other people at CFM (VC) in Mississauga, Toronto, Ontario, yes,
Canada. The times they are a'changin'
Pat Kerr
Sunworks Inc.
Hawkesbury Ontario
 
 

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Subject: Re: Shutting down the net!
From: "Jim Butchart" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:47:19 -0500
 
 
> Wow! Hackers shut down Yahoo, eBay, even slowed down Amazon today.
> Cnn.com is not reachable from here tonight either. This is like the
> tet offensive, a massive coordinated attack on many of the nets
> largest sites.
 
Nicely written piece Craig.  This is stuff that is near and dear to our
hearts and will, in a very short time, be much more significant to =
everyone
else.
 
This is serious guano.  Deep doodoo.
 
You are right when you say the internet is based on trust.  It is such an
open system  that any curious person can learn how to manipulate it.  I am
convinced that if I was of a completely different mindset, I could also
bring just about any system to its knees.  It is too easy to run a cron =
job
out of hacked sites all over the world and have trojans fire up all at one
time, churning out a bazillion bad packets to one target.  The problem is
that it is too easy.
 
It is going to be interesting to see how the feds are going to attempt to
deal with this.  What is nasty is that some kid is messing with a very =
cool
tool.
 
Jim Butchart
WebWorkWest
 
www.hearthassociation.org/E-expo
www.webworkwest.com
 
 

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Subject: Re: Majestic cares?
From: "Skip Jackson" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 09:10:37 -0500
 
Dear Gary and Carrie,
	Your message ended with: Once again, we start all
over....
	Why don't you start all over with another company.  I
was a Majestic distributor then a dealer, now I buy from other
manufactures that at least care a little about me.
Skip Jackson
Fireside Engeering
Cincinnati Ohio