[5070] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: My First Denial of Service Attack..... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tersian)
Mon Oct 7 14:59:19 1996
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:34:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tersian <tersian@leba.net>
To: Eric Ziegast <ziegast@zee.im.gte.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610070838.BAA07014@zee.im.gte.com>
> Here's a non-relevant anecdote you reminded me of:
>
Your anecdote reminded me of a story someone told me recently about AT&T.
I am not going to type it all out here, but I will summarize.
Company A hires Company B to do some trenching along the highway to
install new fiber for Company A. Company B's backhoe operator
accidentally cuts a major AT&T backbone causing serious outages. AT&T not
only sues the backhoe driver, but Company B and Company A, forcing them
both to declair chapter 11.
My point is here, if we start taking hackers to court, what happens in
this scenario:
Hacker is from badguy.com telnets to compromised.jumpoff.com then SYN
floods att.com?
[Disclaimer: the hosts above were for demonstrative purposes only, the
hosts are fictional, bearing no direct correlation to any living or dead]
Who gets sued? Both providers, neither, or just the hacker?
It brings up some interesting questions.
Ben
