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Old 09-19-2004, 06:04 PM  
AndrewKanuck
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Originally posted by The Hammer
Interesting thought. There are services out there that charge you to protect your sites against attacks as well as hosting companies that promote the fact that they protect their clients. Kinda makes one wonder if one of them wouldn't start ddos attacking large sites to drum up biz.

I'm sure I'm wrong though. No one would do something like that.
There sure is - a host I used to used got raided by the FBI, and all boxes seized (clients boxes too) while they looked into it. Now the owner and a few others are in court about it.
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