[20473] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HACKER's IRC network, smurf configs, etc etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Neill)
Wed Oct 14 11:28:14 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 10:42:23 -0400
From: Christopher Neill <chrisn@qual.net>
To: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@Relcom.EU.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.981014182331.10349a-100000@virgin.relcom.eu.net>; from Alex P. Rudnev on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 06:31:00PM +0400
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 06:31:00PM +0400, Alex P. Rudnev wrote:
> Christopher.
>
> I know it. But (1) surely 90% of russion hackers do not read NANOG, (2) I
> need to scare those of hackers who did not stop their attempts to break
> the whole world, and (3) I need some help from the USA's sys admins (and
> Iv got a few important messages already).
>
> My idea (successfulll last case) is not to close the backdoors hacker
> built over the whole world, but to cause him of using this backdoors and
> the servers he used to work through. I was silent at the first stage
> while the hacker was active in my mouse trap. Now we have provided some
> noice here, and I am not sure if it's bad idea to provide more noice over
> the world.
>
> Through you are right - to get ip address was the bad idea.
> And I think this was different people who (1) installed IRC network and
> (2) snifffed school network...
>
> No doubt I have not idea to discuss this in open forum anymore.. But to
> get some attraction... why not.
>
instinct tells me that the hackers are from north america. its just that alot
of european educational institutions are easy targets, and are attractive
because you are less likely to get into trouble to hacking a .ru server.
