To quote: Marc Horowitz <marc@GZA.COM>
"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 /* Jonathan Stigelman, Stig@netcom.com, PGP public key by finger */ /* fingerprint = 32 DF B9 19 AE 28 D1 7A A3 9D 0B 1A 33 13 4D 7F */