November 30, 2004
A chance to cause offence
Lycos are encouraging people to DDoS websites they don't like. — presumably this is somehow supposed to stop people trying to sell me Rolex watches, or something. I'm sure I appreciate the effort to stop spam and all, but really, DDoSing people (including innocent networks unfortunate enough to be transferring the intervening traffic) isn't the way forward. Not to mention the effects if innocent sites are targetted, or spammy sites are hosted on the same boxes/networks as non-spammy ones.
According to the BBC News article, Lycos want to give us users "the chance to be a bit more offensive" — frankly, they can fuck right off. And I hope that's offensive enough for them.
Posted by James at 03:52
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according to news.bbc they have put it on hold now.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4065751.stm
Posted by: susie at December 3, 2004 03:55 PM