Re: GoDaddy DDoS

From: Sam Crooks (no email)
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 12:32:51 EST

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    So anyway, back to the original post.... does anyone from GoDaddy have
    any information regarding the DDoS?

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    On 12/1/05,  <> wrote:
    > On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 01:47:17 PST, Jay Hennigan said:
    >
    > > Has the validity of such language ever been upheld in court?
    >
    > IANAL - but apparently the use of it on *some* faxes has stood up in court,
    > it hasn't been tested on e-mail yet, but a number of people who have written
    > on it think that the indiscriminate use of disclaimers will backfire badly
    > if the opposing legal staff can show the company can't tell the difference
    > between an e-mail discussing strategy for an upcoming trial and a request
    > for help with BGP. URLs I found the last time I researched this:
    >
    > http://www.wendytech.com/articlesemailandprivilege.htm
    > http://www.mcguirewoods.com/news-resources/publications/commercial_litigation/LitigationEthics.Brief.33.2.Winter2004.pdf
    > http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/cyber/cyberlaw/17law.html
    >
    > > Nobody reads it anyway.  You're not actually reading this, are you?
    > > I didn't think so.
    >
    > I love the ones that put "please discard without reading" at the *bottom* of
    > the e-mail.  Bonus points for having a single unwrapped 3,487 character long
    > line so standard-compliant MUAs that don't flow text unless it *says* text/flowed,
    > so you have to use the horizontal scrollbar to find the "please discard without
    > reading" ;)
    >
    > ObNANOG: The ones that claim you are *required* to destroy *all* copies,
    > including the unlinked-but-not-yet-overwritten data blocks on that RAID
    > you use for a mail store, and the backup tapes.  I mean, after all, if they
    > screwed up and they want it *destroyed*, they don't want it *destroyed* in the
    > half-assed, just-get-the-disk-copy way that eventually helped convict
    > Colonel Oliver North partly on the basis of the backup tapes:
    >
    > http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/reagan/chron.txt
    >
    > Figuring out how to do this right, and then invoice the responsible company for the
    > cost, thus creating a profit center for your company, is left as an excersize
    > for the reader. ;)
    >
    >
    >
    >
    

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