Hi, On 26 Nov 2001, at 13:40, Boris Lorenz wrote:
Oh, and I think Ralf Koch is quite right. Although it often helps to broaden your understanding of anti-cracker skills by setting up honeypots or active/passive retaliation systems (if your time allows), such techniques are of minor use in reality, and may cause problems if configured incorrectly.
Don't attack the attacker. Don't descent to their level.
I still get CodeRed/Nimda scans from about 10 different IP addresses a day. How about sending complaints along with the excerpts of the logfiles to the police and prosecuting authorities? At least in europe, if nothing else, if enough people did that, it would show them how much work the cybercrime act would mean for them! Not that I think it would change much. mike