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Zombieware: Some call it crime, others smart marketing
If nothing else, the Great Internet Meltdown of February 2000 enlarged the computer vocabulary of us poor souls who don’t know our TCP from our PPP.
For example, a large swath of the foreign language-challenged American public now knows that Stacheldraht, a hackers program, is German for “barbed wire.” Then there are hacking terms such as “smurfing,” “Trinoo,” and “DoS” (“denial of service”).
Above all, I am eternally grateful to the perpetrators of the denial of service for introducing us to the concept of the “zombie” computer.





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