![]() It turns out AT&T was really just trying to protect the site, and its own servers, from a typical "denial of service" attack. The site's founder posted a note telling his minion's to write and complain to AT&T, and the dog whistle having been heard, a posse called "Project AT&T," quickly formed, dedicated to revenge.Īs I perused the porn, I got the overwhelming sense that I had landed in the Internet's equivalent of the parking lot behind a 7-Eleven. The 4Chan community-a diehard, if ever-changing assortment of the Net's most-desperate, most-anonymous, and most-wanted, well, punks-smelled censorship, top-down control, and an evil corporation trying to keep down the world's last squat for hackers. People move to the side of the room, climb under tables, and wait for the shots to fly. It was like one of those bad Westerns, when an arrogant newcomer sits down in the saloon, and then insults the baddest, most trigger-happy gunslinger in the county. ![]() ![]() When AT&T recently blocked access to a hugely popular hackers' Web site,, many of us Internet old-timers froze in place.
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