Viral DNS Attack, DDos Idea

[Tim May]

On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 08:19  AM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>
> Evolved diseases don't kill their hosts.  Google is too useful
> to redirect.  On the other hand, you can redirect an entire
> TLD (eg .mil), albeit on one machine at a time. Try doing that
> to one of The DNS Roots (pbut).

Many evolved diseases _DO_ kill their hosts. Look around.

It is true that there are tradeoffs in lethality, time to death, and 
virulence, and that a disease which kills too quickly and too many 
won't spread adequately, but quite clearly all of the diseases of the 
past were evolved (until recently, none were created) and yet they 
often killed their hosts.

--Tim May
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, 
and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for 
then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -- Mark Twain