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[linux-security] Re: WARNING: Break-in attempts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale.Babiy)
Tue Jun 23 02:32:30 1998
From: "Dale.Babiy" <Dale.Babiy@gov.yk.ca>
To: Shaun Hedges <shedges@shaw.wave.ca>
Cc: linux-security@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 08:20:45 -0700
Resent-From: linux-security@redhat.com
Resent-Reply-To: linux-security@redhat.com
(to mod: I know this is off-topic for the list, use your judgement, I
won't be offended :))
> and you should just forget about it. This happens to me
> everyday, if I really
> wanted to threaten them then I would send email to their
> admins, but there is
> no use.
>
> They would rather have people doing bad stuff and paying
> money, than have no
> money at all.
This is untrue. My first SA job was with a startup ISP. We would have
terminated this user under our "We reserve the right to be as*holes with
no apparent reason" clause, if we had to. Consider for a moment. A
user is worth (here) 24.95/month. If said user (and undoubtedly he
would eventually) pisses someone else off enough to cause them to DOS
us, we lose, big time. Why would we risk that on a user who had clearly
shown him or herself to be actively attempting to gain entrance to
another person's system?
And if he's trying to get into your system, undoubtedly he's trying ours
too. No thanks.
We also nuked several users for massmails. We tried to be good
net-citizens.
Anyway, I think you underestimate how much some ISP SA's care about this
sort of garbage.
Dale Babiy,
Network & Integration Specialist
Yukon Territorial Govt
Department of Education
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