Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:00:29 +1000 From: Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> Cc: Enno Davids <enno.davids@metva.com.au>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Chasing the kiddies (was: Named Keep crashing) Message-ID: <3ACBEDDD.C8E3549B@quake.com.au> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104041314460.10247-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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"Forrest W. Christian" wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > > > Why should network scanning be a crime at all? If anything should be a crime > > its sloppy admins that let there networks get comprimised... > > But when after you scan, you break in and destroy data, THAT should be the > crime I'm talking about. > > What you don't realize is that a lot of these attacks are now automated > rootkits which basically scan for the hole and if they find it, ROOT YOUR > MACHINE. > > This is wrong. Yeah sure its wrong to break in, but its not wrong to scan... Its a fine line these days, but a line all the same... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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