On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 00:00, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 21:25, Jack Coates wrote: > > http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/verisign > > > > On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 19:12, Jack Coates wrote: > > > Just finished doing a four-page write up of it for work, I'll be > > > de-working it and putting it on monkeynoodle.org as time permits. > > ... > > Jack, > > Thanks for posting this. It saved me a bunch of work on trying to > explain this to a lot of people at work. > > Oh and it seems that Outlook is really affected by this. One of our > people sent an e-mail to 8 of us. One e-mail addy was mistyped. Yep > you guessed it every 5 minutes or so it kept resending the e-mail > because the Verisign site didn't return an error properly. It didn't > stop sending until he turned off his laptop. (not knowing what it was > doing.) and as a result we all got 35+ copies of the mail. Now take > this times the number of Outlook users (and similarly affect e-mail > clients) and you've got the perfect DDoS attack, guaranteed to take down > the net. (IMHO) > > James >
Yikes! It's been about a year since I've used Outlook and then it was in corporate mode, I forgot that little "feature". -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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