MacInTouch, another Mac-related site, believes that its server was attacked with a "SYN-Flood" just like the Swedish sit

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MacInTouch, another Mac-related site, believes that its server was attacked with a "SYN-Flood" just like the Swedish site of the Crack-a-Mac contest for hackers. This attack basically "kaopectates" the server and access is denied. Of course, this kind of attack doesn't win the contest since the Mac was not hacked and, furthermore, it is not Mac-specific so it proves nothing about Macs.

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