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Darl's Phone 'Slashdotted'

Darl's Phone 'Slashdotted'
By Maureen O'Gara
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February 6, 2004 12:00 AM EST
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On Sunday while MyDoom was overwhelming the SCO Group's web site, the home phone of SCO CEO Darl McBride was being overwhelmed during the Super Bowl by prank calls, most of them rude and insulting, put in train by the Linux-leaning Slashdot site, which posted his unlisted number and thought it would amuse itself. "I know this is cruel," a ringleader who calls himself "boy afraid" wrote, "but it's fun."

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Marty Leisner 02/11/04 10:09:03 AM EST

hmmm...his number doesn't seem to be "unlisted"
(maybe this is more misinformation).

In 411.com, its:
http://411wp.411web.com/_1_LD1TIB0O61L8K__four11.main/wp/results/kevdb?O...
Larry W. Virden 02/09/04 02:00:17 PM EST

Slashdot has readers with many interest - why pick on the fact that Slashdot has Linux advocates as readers? Maybe the people calling him were anti-football, or anti-Bush, or anti-telephones, or anti-Microsoft, or pro-Microsoft, or ...

It seems ridiculous to me to drag Linux into ever newsreport that touchs SCO -are your writers on the SCO and Microsoft payrolls?
ALPer 02/06/04 08:51:17 PM EST

"boy afraid" probably finds smashing mailboxes of people he doesn't like fun too. Shame on him and the pranksters that went too far.
tracyanne 02/06/04 04:10:59 PM EST

"I know this is cruel," a ringleader who calls himself "boy afraid" wrote, "but it's fun."

It's also stupid.