[43873] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EXAMPLE: ### xxx Canada detected a penetration attempt from 209.123.x.229. Incident# xxxx
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher A. Woodfield)
Fri Oct 26 17:20:42 2001
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:20:46 -0400
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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From: "Christopher A. Woodfield" <rekoil@semihuman.com>
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Pinging is not analogous to twisting doorknobs, I think of it more like
driving past your house - "yep, there's a house there." NMAP scans are
more like twisting doorknobs to me.
-C
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:52:15PM -0400, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
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> Blasphemy.
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> There is quite a difference, even in analogy, of some pinging/port
> scanning, and someone twisting my doorknobs.
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> If you can't see it, you won't.
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> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
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> > I suppose if you see someone looking into the windows of your home and
> > hear them twisting the doorknobs you don't mind either, you just ignore
> > him and go about your business. After all, they didnt actually break in
> > did they? So, no worries.
>
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