February 17, 2000

"Our lives should not revolve around guaranteed 24/7 access to E-Bay, or Yahoo!, or any site on the public Internet, regardless of its importance."

-- An excerpt from the PFIR Statement on Recent Internet Denial of Service Attacks; written by Lauren Weinstein, Co-Founder, People For Internet Responsibility (PFIR).

The HotSheet will return in March with original content.

Related links:

• CNN: 'Immense' network assault takes down Yahoo   (http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/02/08/yahoo.assault.idg/index.html)
• Slashdot Forum: The Yahoo Denial of Service   (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/08/1338245&mode=thread)
• News.com special coverage: 'Shutdown'   (http://news.cnet.com/news//0-1007-201-1545382-0.html?tag=st.cn.sr.ne.1)