[3211] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: I believe you is partly responsible if the obsene message i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Murray)
Fri Oct 11 17:15:37 1996
From: "David Murray" <dmurray@pdssoftware.com>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:50:44 -0400
Reply-To: dmurray@pdssoftware.com
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
root@cyberhighway.com e-mailed me to say that the bonehead that sent
the message had his account cancelled.
I too e-mailed primenet. Their response was that they were just
used as the e-mail gateway, and that they were referring it to
cyberhighway deal with the problem (lots of us got that one).
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu is an un-moderated, open-to-the-world
mailing list and they really have no responsibilty for controlling
the postings to the list. That's probably in the FAQ, though I have
to admit, I haven't read it. They're just providing the hardware and
software to produce the list. So, don't blame them.
We just saw that we can protect the list by protesting to the
administrators of the site where the e-mail originated. In this
case, people were referred to primenet and cyberhighway. How did we
know that? Look at all the detail of the mail headers in the
original message. You will see that a mail server at primenet sent
it to rutgers, and further down you will see that primenet received
it from cyberhighway. If your e-mail reader doesn't show you this
info, find out how to turn it on (it happens to be Ctrl-H in my
client). Send your complaints to root, postmaster, abuse, and/or
support (if its an obvious ISP).
The one unfortunate part of this incident is that cyberhighway (or
any other ISP for that matter) can only keep this yo-yo off the
'net until he produces another credit card...
Dave
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 96 08:49:02
> From: habib@klse.com.my
> Subject: I believe you is partly responsible if the obsene message is to be found from your
> To: mx%"www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu",mx%"sc@sfik.reading.sgi.com"
> Cc:
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:42:26 +0800
> From: MOHAMED HABIB MOHAMED EUSOFF <habib@klse.com.my>
> To: www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU, sc@sfik.reading.sgi.com
> Subject: I believe you is partly responsible if the obsene message is to be
> found from your
> I believe you is partly responsible if the obsene message is to be found from your
> organization. As such I feel it is NOT right just to close the case until we received the truth
> of who has send and probably offer public apology of the incident.
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