[11114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: question about per. hack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Hurst)
Mon Jul 21 20:16:34 1997
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:32:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marc Hurst <mhurst@fastlane.ca>
To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707212330.QAA13230@wisdom.rc.vix.com>
Is there a U.S. Federal Marshall in the House. I'll even give him
Eugenes' home address ... >:|
On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> >>i think this is the first time. i'm cc'ing NANOG since several folks there
> >>are wondering exactly why i think the FBI should get involved and why i think
> >>eugene kashpureff should be jailed.
> >
> > Mr. Kashpureff has been kind enough to document his work at:
> > http://www.alternic.net/press/
>
> What Mr. Kashpureff isn't saying is that he's not just leaking bad data
> when someone asks him about something in the normal case of DNS events;
> he is actively sweeping through the public NS RR lists and causing those
> servers to ask his servers questions whose answers contain intentional
> cache corruption.
>
> Leaking the data would be a "hack." Causing other people to ask questions
> to which you then send intentionally corrupt answers is a "crack." I am
> astonished that here we are days later and it's still occuring. Usually
> the teenagers who perpetrate this kind of stupidity are arrested and have
> their PC's confiscated.
>
