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Re: I believe you is partly responsible if the obsene message i
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (FEMA InfoSec)
Sat Oct 12 14:30:27 1996
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 11:38:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: FEMA InfoSec <infosec@fema.gov>
To: David Murray <dmurray@pdssoftware.com>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610111551.LAA15372@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
And, you can find out who the administrator and technical contacts are for
any site by accessing their InterNIC database data, either from a UNIX
command line by entering:
whois -h rs.internic.net [domain.name]
or by browsing the InterNIC's website at: http://rs.internic.net
Regards.
Bill
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, David Murray wrote:
>
> 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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Bill Casti, CQA Email: infosec@fema.gov
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