Beer League Hockey Slewfooted

Beer League Hockey (BLH) has finally returned after missing 3 days after falling victim to an on-line slew-foot. The server farm that hosted BLH was attacked from behind on Sunday April 25th in what equates to a cowardly move. Someone uploaded a Trojan into the server and knocked it on its ass. The server was unable to recover from its injuries and has since been replaced.

Slew-Footing is the act of a player using his leg or foot to knock or kick an opponent’s feet from under him, or pushes an opponent’s upper body backward with an arm or elbow, and at the same time with a forward motion of his leg, knocks or kicks the opponent’s feet from under him. is covered under three separate sections of the NHL rulebook: Rule 91 Tripping, Rule 43 Attempt to Injure, and Rule 52 Deliberate Injury of Opponents.

Unlike the NHL, there is no rulebook for hackers. Hackers are not on the game sheet and wear no identifying name or number on their backs when they commit the foul.

The term comes from a story in Homer’s Iliad, in which the Greeks give a giant wooden horse to their foes, the Trojans, ostensibly as a peace offering. But after the Trojans drag the horse inside their city walls, Greek soldiers sneak out of the horse’s hollow belly and open the city gates, allowing their compatriots to pour in and capture Troy

A Trojan horse (or “Trojan”) is simply a program that supposedly does one thing, but also does something else that you do not know about. It has, so to speak, a public agenda that is harmless, and a private agenda that is not. One particular sub-category of Trojans makes it possible for someone else to access your computer over the Internet.