[17911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Sobol)
Tue Jun 16 23:29:59 1998
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 23:11:44 -0400
From: Steve Sobol <sjsobol@shell.nacs.net>
To: Richard Thomas <buglord@ex-pressnet.com>
Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <003201bd99db$fd9f3940$0201a8c0@winblows.sy.net>; from Richard Thomas on Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 06:33:14AM -0400
> >Not really. The best approach is to nail a few of these folks with felony
> >indictments for the denial of service attacks, and the theft of the
> >amplifier network's services. That would stop this practice cold.
>
> Unfortunantly I highly doubt this will have much impact. Firstly, all of the
> "smurf kiddies" are using hacked shells, so when you trace it back to them
> they don't care, they just move to the next machine. Secondly, the most
I think the main issue is -- or should be -- getting AMPLIFIERS to fix
their problem first.
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