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Subject: We've just been slashdot'ed ...
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 20:11:19 +0100
From: Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <E11e18p-0006af-00@chatteris.cl.cam.ac.uk>
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[ In case you have not come across it, /. is a kind of news service for nerds.
  When something is mentioned, the referenced site is hammered by people from
  all over following the link ...
] 
	[ Encryption ] Posted by CmdrTaco on 99-10-20 17:18 BST
	from the stuff-to-read dept.
	Asmodeus writes "Those boys at Cambridge have done it again.
	The Resurrecting Duckling (where do they get these names ?) is a
	description of the security problems in ad-hoc wireless networks with
	some nifty solutions to the problems." Its a really interesting techie
	bit actually. Talks about problems with low power, wireless boxes.
	Its strange to think that in wireless world, for example a denial of
	service attack could be anything designed to drain your battery. 

We have had 10K hits since 17:18 (in fact 17:18:17 was the first !)

It doesn't seem to have made march break into a sweat yet ...