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Re: CERT: the letter from CERT to berkeley.edu admin
To quote: Marc Horowitz <[email protected]>
> "Do not attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity." Without support, I think CERT is merely being stupid.
> Someone else (maybe even a government employee) is being malicious. I
> do think cert is harming their effectiveness by doing this. My guess
> is that they never stopped to think that someone might use them in
> this way to shut down an "unpopular" ftp site.
>
Sounds like this thread is getting too soft on CERT:
For soda, the mail went to someone@soda....
For Julf's machine, it went to his NETWORK PROVIDER. (This is not a
courteous move, nor was it intended to be.)
Stig
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