Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 02:45:31 -0600 (MDT) From: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com> To: Enno Davids <enno.davids@metva.com.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Chasing the kiddies (was: Named Keep crashing) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104040236270.7946-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> In-Reply-To: <200104040745.RAA08839@metva.com.au>
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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Enno Davids wrote: > This response kind of bothers me. There was a time when everytime I could > sanely trace spammers I emailed abuse@wherever.was.relevant to advise them. > Similarly, when people probed Apache I'd send off adivsory emails. As with me. However, I think there are two interrelated problems: 1) Everyone and their dog running firewall software which interprets every stray packet as an intrusion attempt. I probably get 10 reports of intrusions from my network (64 class C's) every week, and I'm getting really irritated with people who can't figure out that most of the positives are side effects of perfectly valid internet-type traffic. 2) The fact that due to #1, when there is a real intrusion, most people assume that it isn't really a positive. I still take all of the queries seriously, but frankly, it's getting irritating. There is the other issue that the sheer quantity of people with the ability to do port scans and perform intrusions is increasing exponentially. I really hate to say this, but we need some well-written laws to deal with this crap, so we can go after these people. Perhaps not with a criminal penalty but a civil one instead.... - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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