[37252] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: black hat .cn networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Tue May 8 04:59:05 2001
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 01:50:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Wing Wong <dualwing@pacbell.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Tue, 8 May 2001, Wing Wong wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Paul Lantinga wrote:
> > > Justin, et al, do you have any *proof* that these attacks are coming from
> > > Chinese attackers on Chinese machines?
> > We may never know since mainland china admins never respond to abuse mails.
> Ever consider the possibility that the admins in question don't understand
> English? It'd be like if someone sends you a Big5 or SJIS encoded message
> complaining about spam or cracks and all you see is binary jiberish on
> your screen.
> Even romanized communications would be difficult to understand.
I can use babelfish, why can't they?
Yes, babelfish is less than perfect, but I can usually grok the gist of an
email.
And if babelfish isnt good enough, there's others.
FWIW I've had a chinese friend in canada send a BIG5 email once and the
same -- no response.
-Dan
