At 9/21/01 9:55 AM, Michael L. Dean wrote:
>what about the ones that are still active, including September11.com, which
>was registered prior to that date? Why don't we as a group hack the true
>owners of these registrations and their isp's and turn it over to the FBI?
Because registering a date as a domain name doesn't mean that you caused
something horrible to happen on that day? The guy that owns
September11.com also owns September10.com, September13.com, and many
more, for goodness' sake.
The other ones mentioned are obvious coincidences, too. Things like
"horrorinamerica.com" are generic, and ones like "nycterroriststrike.com"
and "worldtradetowerattack.com" almost certainly refer to the previous
terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. As for
"terrorattack2001.com", well, there's unfortunately always going to be a
terror attack somewhere, every year -- until September 11, various people
in the Middle East probably thought it referred to them.
The human mind is great at recognizing patterns in a sea of data, even
where the patterns don't exist beyond coincidence. Suggesting that we
"hack" people and report them to the FBI based on those patterns is not a
good idea.
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
