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Lycos Goes Straight
Mark Rasch, 2004-12-06

After a week of well-deserved criticism, Lycos is abandoning its scheme to launch denial-of-service attacks against spammy websites. Did the company reform in time to avoid criminal prosecution?

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Lycos Goes Straight - Mark doesn't get it 2004-12-07
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Mark and fellow JDs clearly have let their prosecutorial histories cloud their perception of this matter. The truth is that Lycos Europe proposed the most novel approach yet to stopping spam, and it had nothing to do with a denial of service attack. As clearly stated by Lycos, a DoS attack would b...

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