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I'm sure most of you heard that on Tuesday, the internet's root DNS servers were crippled by a Denial Of Service (DOS) attack, where the machines were flooded with endless garbage IP packets so the real DNS requests couldn't get through. What I recently learned, though, is this was really a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack. That means that hackers hacked into hundreds of other peoples' home computers and then remotely commanded them all to attach the root DNS servers at the same time, probably without the owners' knowledge. What I'm trying to point out here is that it's easy to say "well, I don't have any important data on my machine hooked up to a cablemodem or DSL line, so I don't need a firewall", but that doesn't mean your machine can't be used by hackers to hurt others. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an DK KD earth-shattering kaboom." DDDD - Marvin the Martian
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