From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 04:58:00 +0800
To: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
Subject: Re: At night, the ice weasels come...
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On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:

> TruthMonger <tm@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.