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Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew D Kirch)
Wed Mar 12 12:39:41 2014
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:37:55 -0400
From: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <yrl62v0m49m6rsluhfk5vr8g.1394640969066@email.android.com>
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Hi,
I found that finding them on IRC, or wherever it is that they
congregate, and simply talking to them until they incriminate themselves
tends to work best. I also found that firewalls, IDS, security audits,
antivirus, antimalware etc work almost not at all. The reason for this
is pretty simple. Cybercrime is not a technical problem and does not
have a technical solution. The solution is just like any other criminal
act, find them, get them to confess, and then put a real world face and
location to the IRC persona. Easy.
Andrew
On 3/12/2014 12:16 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
> I heard cheese works really well for catching crackers.
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> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
> Date: 03/12/2014 9:08 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
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> On 3/12/2014 5:41 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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>> TIINAL - The Internet Is Not A Lawyer.
> NANOGINTI
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> There ARE rules in the environment, however. For example, there is one
> that I am too lazy to look-up that argues for the use of a .sig
> separator "-- ".
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>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
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>> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
>>
>> -- John Milton
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> --
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> Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to
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> (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
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