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From a February 8 exchange on “goonies,” a channel on the Internet Relay Chat system, that was intercepted by computer security experts at Stanford University and at Securify, a consulting firm, in the midst of a series of “denial of service” attacks on major commercial Web sites. Dennis Moran, known online as Coolio, was arrested in March and charged with defacing the Web site of D.A.R.E., an antidrug organization. Moran denies any involvement with the denial-of-service attacks.

Coolio: nice and quiet around here . . . why is cnn.com not working?
Dr_Hydin: THANKS FOR DESTROYING MY NEWS COOLIO.
Coolio: hey…

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