"W. Kiernan" wrote:
>
> Michael Hoover forwarded:
> >
> > > The FBI's Web site was taken offline by a denial of service (DoS)
> > > attack for several hours on Tuesday, UPI reports.
>
> Have you ever heard of the "slashdot effect"? There's a web site at
>
> http://slashdot.org
>
> a discussion board devoted to "stuff that matters / news for nerds",
> that is to say, things of interest to Linux users and the like, which
> generates a terrific lot of traffic whenever they post a new article
> with a link to an outside site. slashdot is famous for inadvertently
> generating an ad hoc DoS attack against any site to which they refer.
> An ordinary hacker's DoS attack involves a lot of fake traffic; in
> contrast, a "slashdot effect" DoS attack comes from hundreds of
> legitimate readers simultaneously trying to access the victim site
> within minutes after the link is posted on slashdot.
>
> Well, sometime last week - it could have been Tuesday - slashdot
> published an article about "Read Einstein's FBI files" which had a link
> to an official FBI web page at
>
> http://foia.fbi.gov/alpha.htm
>
> that lists the most popular of the Freedom of Information Act files
> available for download. In fact I can remember some posts on slashdot
> under that article to the effect that "yeah, I can't get to those files,
> all I get is an error message, looks like the slashdot effect took
> another server down!" The FOIA archives are Acrobat .PDF files, great
> big files and lots of them. So I wonder if the server-benumbing effect
> of a few hundred slashdotters each simultaneously grabbing
> multi-megabyte files over their wide-bandwidth connections might have
> convinced the FBI webmasters that they were the target of some hacker's
> malicious DoS raid.
>
> If you've got some time to waste, go check that FOIA web page out!
> Maybe if the entire subscription to lbo-talk nails their server at once,
> they'll think there's another DoS going down. Then they'll panic down
> at FBI headquarters, that's a lot of fun just to think about. Here's
> the index:
>
> Alcatraz Escape 6/3/98
> American Friends Service Committee 1/28/00
> American POWs/MIAs in Southeast Asia 2/25/00
> Animal/Cattle Mutilation 1/12/98
> Atlanta Child Murders 7/30/99
> Baby Face Nelson 6/3/98
> Baker, Josephine 12/17/99
> Ball, Lucille 1/12/98
> Barbie, Klaus 7/24/97
> Barker-Karpis Gang (summary) 7/30/99
> Black, Hugo 2/25/00
> Black Legion 7/30/99
> Black Panther Party-Winston Salem, NC 12/17/99
> Blunt, Anthony 12/17/99
> Bonnie and Clyde (summary) 6/3/98
> Booth, John Wilkes 6/3/98
> Bowtie (Profumo Matter) 9/30/99
> Brecht, Bertolt 9/30/99
> Burgess, McLean and Philby 7/9/99
> Capone, Al 2/25/00
> Chavez, Cesar and United Farm Workers 7/9/99
> Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam 8/31/99
> Custodial Detention 7/30/99
> Darrow, Clarence 10/29/99
> Dies, Martin 1/28/00
> Dillinger, John (Summary) 1/12/98
> Donovan, William J. 8/31/99
> DuBois, W. E. B. 8/31/99
> Earhart, Amelia 7/24/97
> Einstein, Albert 1/28/00
> Fard, Wallace D 6/3/98
> Faulkner, William 1/28/00
> Five Percenters 12/17/99
> Flynn, Errol 6/3/98
> Ford, Henry 12/17/99
> Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts Annual Statistical Report 12/17/99
> Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts Reference Manual 1/28/00
> Gambino, Carlo 7/30/99
> Gay Activists Alliance 12/17/99
> Giancana, Sam 9/30/99
> Hammer, Armand/Occidental Petroleum 9/30/99
> Hanfstangl, Ernst Franz Sedwick (Putzi) 2/25/00
> Highlander Folk School 11/30/99
> The Hindenburg Disaster 6/3/98
> Hitler, Adolph 6/3/98
> Hoffman, Abbie (Abbott) 2/25/00
> Hoover, J. Edgar 9/30/99
> Interpol 10/29/99
> Jonestown Summary 7/30/99
> Kennedy, Joseph P. 11/30/99
> Kennedy, Robert F. 8/31/99
> Kennedy, Robert F. Assassination (Summary) 8/31/99
> Kent State University 12/17/99
> King, Martin Luther, Jr. 11/30/99
> Krivitsky, Walter G. 11/30/99
> Lattimore, Owen 10/29/99
> Lennon, John 6/3/98
> Levison, Stanley 10/29/99
> Lewis, John L. 11/30/99
> Lindbergh, Charles 11/30/99
> Little, Malcolm X 11/30/99
> Liuzzo, Viola Murder 11/30/99
> London, Jack 1/28/00
> Long, Huey 11/30/99
> Majestic 12 1/12/98
> Mann, Thomas 2/25/00
> Mantle, Mickey 6/3/98
> Marcantonio, Vito 1/28/00
> Marshall, Thurgood 6/3/98
> McCarthy, Joseph 1/28/00
> Miami, Florida, 4/11/86 Shooting Incident 12/17/99
> Miburn (Mississippi Burning) 6/3/98
> Monroe, Marilyn 1/12/98
> Moorish Science Temple of America 2/25/00
> Muhammad, Elijah 10/29/99
> Nathan Silvermaster Group 2/25/00
> National Alliance 12/17/99
> Ness, Eliot 6/3/98
> Nureyev, Rudolph 7/9/99
> Onassis, Aristotle 1/28/00
> Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy 1/28/00
> Orwell, George 1/28/00
> Osage Indian Murders 11/30/99
> Parsons, John 12/17/99
> Picasso, Pablo 6/3/98
> Presley, Elvis 7/24/97
> Pretty Boy Floyd and Kansas Massacre (Summary) 8/31/99
> Project Blue Book 7/24/97
> Purvis, Melvin 10/29/99
> Reich, Wilhelm 2/25/00
> Rockefeller, Nelson 2/25/00
> Robeson, Paul and Eslanda 6/3/98
> Robinson, Jackie 7/24/97
> Rogers, Will 6/3/98
> Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel (Summary) 1/12/98
> Roswell 1/12/98
> Rudolph, Arthur 12/17/99
> Rukeyser, Muriel 2/25/00
> Sacco/Vanzetti Case 11/30/99
> St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1/12/98
> Siegel, Bugsy 1/28/00
> Sinatra, Frank 2/3/99
> Smith, Clarence 13X 7/24/97
> Spellman, Francis Cardinal 6/3/98
> Steinbeck, John 9/30/99
> Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 2/25/00
> Supreme Court 1/28/00
> Surreptitious Entries 12/17/99
> Tesla, Nikola 6/3/98
> Tokyo Rose (Iva Ikako Toguri D'Aquino) 11/30/99
> Tolson, Clyde 1/28/00
> Tresca, Carlo 2/25/00
> Trotsky, Leon 6/3/98
> Unidentified Flying Objects 1/12/98
> Venona 2/3/99
> Von Braun, Wernher 7/30/99
> Wayne, John 1/12/98
> Weatherman Underground 2/3/99
> Wilkins, Roy 1/28/00
> Winchell, Walter 7/30/99
> Windsor, Duke and Duchess 1/12/98
> Wright, Richard Nathaniel 12/17/99
>
> "What?!" I hear you all saying, "you mean Henwood's not on the list?"
> Yes, it scarcely seems possible; clearly somebody high up is covering up
> something, I smell a conspiracy.
>
> Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net
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