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[richard@auscoms.com.au]

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>From Time magazine's otherwise decent coverage of the DDoS attacks:
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,39177,00.html

[big snip]
>Choosing the right networks took time. About 50 were used for the Yahoo attack;
more were
>employed in later hits. But once they were selected, activation was simply a
matter of
>uploading bits of code called daemons, similar to viruses, which bided their
time in dark 
>corners of these remote networks until the hacker decided it was DOS Day.

Imaginary editorial conversation:
"What's a daemon?"
"Dunno. Sounds nasty though."
"Yeah, must be something like a virus."

Richard Chirgwin