Re: Proposal for removal of mICQ package
Manoj Srivastava (2003-02-14 02:52:39 -0600) :
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> If you remember, denial of service attacks also cause little data
> loss. The user is just incoveninced, that's all, right? They can't
> use the program that they had installed, no skin off cnn.com's nose,
> eh? Wrong.
No skin off cnn.com's nose maybe, but Debian as a project certainly
suffers a loss in reputation, like CNN does when they are attacked
with a DOS trojan. The loss may be judged as more or less important
for the end user (maybe even *by* the end user), but the loss for
Debian is undoubtedly real.
Roland.
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Roland Mas
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