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Re: security advice requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Fall)
Tue Nov 17 11:27:37 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:24:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
To: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <criterion-consulting@usinternet.com>
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Let me get this straight: somebody tried to telnet four (was it four?)
times, apparently by hand, onto your machine, then gave up. You could
call me the devil's advocate, but is it fair to tag such a person as a
cracker and go after them? I've failed telnet attempts four times in a
row because my fingers were cold and I typed badly; sometimes I've even
given the incorrect address, thereby attempting, repeatedly, to telnet
into a totally foreign machine. It certainly would have spoiled my day
if there had been an Internet gestapo coming down on me for it.
I'm not trying to be a smarty here, and I don't know what exactly
this looks like in your logs, but I think you should be pretty convinced
that they illustrate an aggressive and malicious attempt to gain access
to your computer before you begin reporting it as an incident. .02
GF
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