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We contacted BT was contacted and initially denied any such attack but rang back to confirm that the three sites mentioned were under attack and its techie staff were on the job.

This afternoon, the unnamed person behind the DoS attacks responded to our attempts to contact him. Aside from drawing a distinction between DoS and hacking, it appears as though the attack was out of genuine fury at BT's Internet service.

In the Register we could read:
"Now onto the real reason I replied , I just want to take this opportunity to let BT know that if they don't fix their current policies on how long one can stay connected or whether the subscriber is using a cable phone line they can expect allot more of these lame floods. The next time I will school you hardcore.

"BT are dumb they wouldn't suspect anything even if I'd have taken down their backbone. The only reason BT came back online is because I stopped hitting them there is no cure for a bandwidth consumption attack. And the reason for stopping was to avoid a trace of the spoofing ack packets by going back one router hop at a time. If the machines I used wern't so valuable to me I'd have lets them stay offline."

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Copyright © [Telecom and Logistics Associates Sàrl]. All rights reserved.
Revised: juillet 22, 2000 .