[71193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Even you can be hacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Crist Clark)
Thu Jun 10 16:22:14 2004
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:17:46 -0700
From: Crist Clark <crist.clark@globalstar.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0406101320330.24273@clifden.donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
> If you leave your lights on, the electric company will send you a bill.
If the neighbor taps into your power lines after the meter...?
> If you leave your faucets running, the water company will send you a bill.
> If you leave your computer infected, ???
If you lose your credit card and someone runs up thousands of dollars
in charges, the credit card company sends you a bill... But you can at
most be held responsible for $50.
Does that really mean anything with respect to Mr. Donelan's quoted
article? Not really. But neither do electric and water bills.
I have some sympathy for the malware victim. But I don't expect the
ISP to eat all of the costs. The article is more balanced than the
selected quotes portray.
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Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com
Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387
