[61111] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Fri Aug 22 20:13:24 2003
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 16:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "Beprojects.com" <info@beprojects.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1061556674@imac-en0.delong.sj.ca.us>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Sure, it won't happen in 30 minutes, but, I don't understand why this
> wasn't started when F-Secure first noticed the situation.
I seriously doubt that most (any?) ISP would be willing to accept the
legal liability for altering anything on the computer of a third party
that just happened to connect to an IP in a netblock they are
responsible for. White worms are an elegant engineering concept, but
have little practical value (and huge risk) outside of networks that you
control directly.
Doug
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