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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 2004-12-09
GrimRebuke
What you are proposing is that a company be allowed to commit denial of service attacks on other companies. While the suggestion that this power would only be used for 'good' is charming, it is also pathetically naive. Companies would soon be committing these attacks against competitors. And in t...

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