Microsoft asks Slashdot to remove posts revealing copyrighted material. After Microsoft reportedly reneged on a commitment to publish its proprietary extensions to the open source Kerberos security technology (which authenticates logins to Unix systems), a public message on Slashdot by some open source types including one of the co-developers of the Kerberos standard accused Microsoft of abusing the protocol and preventing the interoperability of its “branded” systems with other Unix systems. They published Microsoft’s data specification as well as ways to circumvent its control….Later in the day, Slashdot went down as a result of a distributed denial-of-service attack.