[100008] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Fri Oct 12 15:15:17 2007
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:13:26 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
CC: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>,
"Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>,
Chris Owen <owenc@hubris.net>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0710121200060.16945@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Ok.
To make my own contribution to this thread hijack somewhat operational...
How many people have had to add to their NOC/Abuse desk SOP:
"When someone calls threatening that they are the FBI/CIA/NSA/Your
grandmother returned from the dead...
<something, something, something>
but essentially, "Don't Panic. And they are basically a crackpot.""
Deepak
Gadi Evron wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:
>>
>>
>> You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....
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> Or a place on dshield's top 10.
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>
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>> Justin M. Streiner wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like
>>>> this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth
>>>> worrying about.
>>>
>>> I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others)
>>> at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time
>>> that were basically a report from whatever security software someone
>>> was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually
>>> something along the lines of this:
>>>
>>> "HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY
>>> SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
>>>
>>> The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
>>>
>>> jms
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