“While SCO’s technical staff worked at dodging MyDoom’s assault
on the company’s Web site, their chief executive officer, Darl
McBride, was experiencing a denial of service attack at a much
closer range.“McBride’s home phone has been crippled by incoming calls since
Sunday, when the previously unlisted number and his home address
were posted on popular technology Web site Slashdot.“It is understood that McBride and his wife have been relying on
mobile phone service since the calls started rolling in. SCO
spokesman Blake Stowell said the family had since received dozens
of ‘obnoxious and sometimes malicious’ phone calls…”
ZDNet UK: McBride Denied Telephone Service
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