From: Erich Meier (Erich.MeierINFORMATIK.UNI-ERLANGEN.DE)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 07:01:30 CDT

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 11:01:14AM -0700, Jay D. Dyson wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, InfoSec News wrote:
>
> > At least, that's the threat that Interior Minister Otto Schily has made,
> > vowing the German government may resort to denial-of-service attacks as
> > a way to shut down U.S. and other foreign websites that help German
> > neo-Nazis.
>
> Like all ultimatims, this won't solve the problem. Whenever a
> gauntlet such as this is thrown, it only serves to polarize the differing
> camps and galvanize support around the target party, no matter now ignoble
> their character.
>
> I am absolutely no fan of the Nazi party or any other organization
> that practices racism, hatred and/or bigotry. As a rule, I won't allow
> any such nonsense on my systems since I'm the sole proprietor and such is
> my right. Even so, if Herr Schily were to make good on this threat of
> state-sponsored Denial of Service attacks, I will definitely blackhole
> that entire nation's netblocks.
>
> I won't condone any form of fascism, even if it is supposedly put
> in place to defeat fascism itself.

100% my opinion. That would start the first real cyberwar and would in fact
cause a new nationalism on the net.

The PR department of Herrn Schily retracted the whole ridiculous issue and said
it was a misunderstanding, false citation, etc.

He should have asked an expert first...

Erich

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