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...Basically, what happened was that a small Stanford network was used as an amplifier on the attack against eBay only," said David J. Brumley, assistant computer security officer for Stanford University. "It was used for about 15 minutes only and then we shut it down...
...Brumley's Grave Problem...
...residents of Brumley Gap, Va., are trying to find an Indian grave in order to "fend off inundation" by a dam [Feb. 26], I certainly wish them better luck than the Seneca Indians had when the Government decided to build Kinzua Dam in the Allegheny Mountains on the New York-Pennsylvania border. One of the great leaders of the Iroquois nation was buried there along with many Senecas, and the tribe was told to move them or they would be flooded. No wonder they call Kinzua "Lake Perfidy...
...ironic that the principal hope for the continued existence of Brumley Gap and its way of life lies in locating an Indian grave site. Can the remains of a displaced civilization be used to aid another on the verge of its own extinction...
...unlike many towns in the U.S. similarly engaged in tilting against giants for their very lives, the people of Brumley Gap have at least got their resistance going early in the proceedings. Most of them cannot imagine defeat. Says Cletis Leonard, a tall, rawboned woman with her silver hair drawn back in a bun: "I sold three quilts at that auction down at the Coon Club last October. Made $200. Maybe I'll do even better next time around." Skinny but indomitable at 95, Floyd ("Unk") Hayter, whose wife Bess thinks the town's big mistake...