At night, the ice weasels come...

[Rabid Wombat]

On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:

> TruthMonger <tm at dev.null> writes:
> 
> > http://www.pretext.com/nov97/short3.htm
> >
> > "Don't get me wrong. I'm not a technophobe. I just think people need to
> > practice safe surfing," Cottrell says.
> >  "In some ways the Anonymizer is the virtual condom."
> 
> What will Cottrell do if someone uses his anonymizer(R)[TM] to connect to
> someone's web server many times in a row, requesting the same pages, and
> the admins of said server whine about "denial of service" attacks?
> 

Make sure you turn off your local cache, Dr.

Anonymizer could also cache frequently requested pages. Also, there are a 
lot better ways to launch an anonymous DoS than to load pages off a 
server via an anonymous proxy.