[108341] in Cypherpunks
Re: Eskimo North: The Anti-Privacy "ISP"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Motyka)
Fri Feb 12 20:18:56 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:07:24 -0800
From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
Your analogy to a burglar trying the doors is poor. A better analogy
would be as a renter checking out all the closets. If the basement is
locked then well the owner means to keep you out of there.
/*
Sounds like the first thing you did was to start probing their system
for
security holes. Of course you didn't do this with the idea of
exploiting
any vulnerabilities you found, but just to see how well maintained the
system was.
It's still an unfriendly act. If you find someone coming up to your
house and trying all the doors to see if they're locked, probing the
windows to see if they can be forced open, etc., then you're not going
to be happy, even if he says he's just checking to see how well you
secure your residence.
You should get permission from the owner of a system before acting like
an attacker.
What was your next step going to be? Run Satan against it? When does
the owner get to object?
*/
