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is a computer security specialist. Mixter first made the transition out of the computer underground into large-scale public awareness, in 2000, at which time newspapers and magazines worldwide mentioned a link to massively destructive and effective
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encrypted links. As an example, the distribution includes a program which will act as a web proxy, but all of the connections will be hidden until they reach the far end trusted peer.
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Mixter. "The Six/Four System; A Decentralized Anonymous Peer-To-Peer Network Infrastructure With Trust," README file in Six/Four distribution, 2003.
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Probe Focuses on Prime Hacking Suspects - Investigation hampered by bogus attack bragging
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The "Tribe Flood Network" distributed denial of service attack tool, An Analysis
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In 2002 Mixter returned to the public eye, as the author of
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distributed denial of service
Yahoo!
Buy.com
eBay
Amazon
E-Trade
MSN.com
Dell
ZDNet
CNN
National Infrastructure Protection Center
Stacheldraht
Tribe Flood Network
USD
Hacktivismo's
Six/Four System
censorship
network
proxy
SSL


Hacker inquiry leads to Germany
BBC News Online
The "Tribe Flood Network" distributed denial of service attack tool, An Analysis
Author of Web Attack Tool speaks
Archived
archive.today
ZDNet

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