Report: "SCO Hacked By Linux Backers"

Posted Dec 11, 2003 6:08 UTC (Thu) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link]

After I posted that article and link I wrote to the online-mag's Technical Editor the following:

Hi. The headline and first paragraph on your article entitled, "Third of the Year: SCO Hacked By Linux Backers" by Charles Farrar is at best a pre-mature, if not groundless, assesment. First, there is no evidence of a DDoS attack occurring now or at any time today according to SCO's ISP, XO.com, and the observations of many security specialists as reported at Groklaw in the story found at the following URL:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031210163721614

Your story and its rather inflamatory headline has been picked up by Google News, which is how I found it.

I trust your organization is as concerned about the validity of its reports as it is of its integrity as a whole. Please correct the unwarranted assumptions in this article and its headline.

Sincerely,

Robert Taylor

I found out later that the site is a news place for the "adult entertainment industry" so maybe I was a bit presumptuous referring to integrity :). Anyway, I'd like to think I made a contribution in getting it removed/redacted/whatever.