I think this is known as sparkfunning. It seems to have originated sometime during the last decade.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Zedd</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Ronald Cotoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:setient@gmail.com">setient@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is highly illegal since it is a DDOS and could cause them damages<br>
such as increased bandwidth costs or remote hands on their server and<br>
possibly losing their hosting.<br>
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Lee Sonko <<a href="mailto:lee@lee.org">lee@lee.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> I was thinking of mounting a DDOS attack on one of my favorite electronics<br>
> dealers web sites. I was thinking that a good way to bring the site down<br>
> would be to tell everyone that they were having a "Free Sale". I figure<br>
> thousands of people would sit by their computers clicking the Refresh button<br>
> like so many monkeys for hours on end.<br>
><br>
> Do you think this would be effective?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Lee<br>
><br>
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