[74606] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew S. Hallacy)
Fri Oct 8 14:57:06 2004
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:58:01 -0500
From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <poptix@poptix.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <B9ECBF8D89E7684EB63FF250E8788B190A7037@BIGLOG.thenap.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:40:06PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote:
>
> The sad thing is that IRC has actual positive uses for sharing
> information; look at the various help channels (especially on a net like
> freenode) for everything from Linux to math to all different types of
> programming languages. That's what a lot of people don't understand when
> they examine the problem of IRC and botnets, is that YES it has huge
> issues but it has legitimate (albeit very under-proportionate to the
> number of non-legitimate) uses and users.
>
> -Drew
I didn't mean to put IRC in a bad light, just pointing out that as usual,
any good tool can be abused.
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