[funsec] First a Denial of Service, Now A Lawsuit: The Million Dollar Homepage

[David Ulevitch]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:19 PM, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Fergie wrote:
>
> What an idiot!  Doesn't he realize that the DDOS attack has  
> generated so
> much more press that he is probably seeing 3x more hits whenever  
> the site
> is up.

Yeah, probably.  He probably realized threatening a lawsuit got his  
website directly linked off CNET too.

-david


>
> -Hank
>
>> I guess this kid just can't catch a break. At least he's got
>> the moolah. :-)
>>
>> Via the C|Net Security blog.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> After being hit by a denial of service attack that downed the  
>> Million Dollar Homepage site, British student Alex Tew now faces a  
>> lawsuit from one of the advertisers on the site.
>>
>> The winner of the last 1,000 pixels, which sold for US$38,100 on  
>> eBay, is threatening to sue because the Web site was offline for  
>> six days until Wednesday, the Financial Times reported in its  
>> online edition on Thursday.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> More:
>> http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6029020.html
>>
>> - ferg
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>>  fergdawg at netzero.net or fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
>>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
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