[22600] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Huge smurf attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Tue Jan 12 16:24:14 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:06:58 -0500
To: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@DAL.NET>, boblevy@ix.netcom.com
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 09:48 AM 1/12/1999 -0800, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 05:12:22PM +0000, Michael Shields put this into my
mailbox:
>
>> In article <19990111101351.04195@dragonlair.dal.net>,
>> Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@DAL.NET> wrote:
>> > Much as I hate to say it, this seems to be one area where industry
>> > self-regulation has utterly failed. I don't know what would be a better
>> > solution; I hate to suggest government regulation. But I'm at a loss
here.
>>
>> Civil liability?
>
>Possibly. I don't know of anyone who's tried suing over a smurf attack.
>If I could afford the lawyer and the court time I'd do it myself.
>All we really need is one or two good cases to establish some case law;
>then the rest of us can have some legal precedent to point to and say
>"If you don't fix your networks, you're screwed."
Criminal. DOS attacks are covered by 18 USC 1030. And I think there
might even be smurf included in the Kevin Mitnick case, but I'm not sure
about that.
--Dean
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