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Looking back at 2004

Looking back at 2004

Posted Dec 23, 2004 11:57 UTC (Thu) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
Parent article: Looking back at 2004

It should be noted that the fd.o attack was just a random script kiddie slamming a large IP range with a string of attacks (presumably with some script he downloaded off IRC): it was indiscriminate and not actually targeted at free software.

That being said, it still sucked.


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