Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

From: Andrew Farmer (andfarm_at_teknovis.com)
Date: 12/04/04

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    To: Full Disclosure <full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com>
    Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:31:37 -0800
    
    
    

    For those who don't want to figure it out for themselves, here's a diff
    from this to the second message. Go figure.

    On 03 Dec 2004, at 16:38, Bob Smith wrote:
    >> I think heads should roll over this. I think its the worst act a
    > corporation has ever undertaken in the history of the internet.
    >
    > So speaketh n3td3v, prohpet, visionary, lord and leader of Full
    > Disclosure.
    >
    > The Internet has always been about vigilante justice. Aside from
    > exceptionally egregious cases of wrongdoing, like

    - child pornography,
    + sexually explicit material with children,

    > fraud, or flagrant piracy, the Internet exists and operates beyond the
    > boundaries of any one nation's laws. It is up to the people to self
    > regulate.
    >
    > We have tried politely reasoning with spammers, we have tried ignoring
    > spammers, we have tried _suing_ spammers. We've leisurely worked our
    > way down the tree and are well past any sort of rational recourse. Now
    > people are willing to resort to brute retaliation.
    >
    > When you sign on to the Internet, you accept this implicitly, to some
    > degree or another.

    + If you screw up, people will blackhole you, flood you, or isolate you.

    > Spammers have been

    - slapping
    + lapping

    > us in the face for too
    > long, and now the Internet reacts and fights back.
    >
    > Everyone who downloaded that screensaver did so intentionally, this
    > wasn't a trojan operating behind the scenes. The participants were
    > willing

    - combatants, the engine
    + combatants. The engine for the battle

    > happened to come from Lycos this time,
    > but there have been other efforts in the past as well.
    >
    > And if the spammers don't like my packets being sent to their system,
    > all they have to do is send me a polite e-mail asking to be

    - removed.
    + removed from my flood-list.

    > It is really quite simple.
    >
    > -Taters

    
    

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