On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, John Ritchie wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Thomas Biege wrote:
providers. The problem is that it happens so frequently on the sites I administer that it takes too much time to track down and report each case. It seems that it's an unfortunate part of life on the Internet these days;
There might be a second reason to report things. If you look at the various attacks that happened awhile back [yahoo etc] they mostly came from machines that had been broken into. It isn't too much of a leap to figure sooner or latter the people being attacked will seek damages not from the crackers but from the people who let their machines be used for the attack. If you know of probes and don't report them [at the very least] I'd bet a lawyer would use that to show you were at least partly responsible. I'm not saying they will win damages but you know somebody will sue sooner or later. If a too hot cup of coffee is worth money how much is crashing Yahoo worth? Nick -- Nick Zentena "The Linux issue," Wladawsky-Berger explained, "is whether this is a fundamentally disruptive technology, like the microprocessor and the Internet? We're betting that it is."