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Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Fri Oct 12 09:50:32 2007
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:49:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: Chris Owen <owenc@hubris.net>
cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <67CAE112-E1A2-467A-9002-223D929B03FA@hubris.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:
> You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this.
> Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about.
I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at
my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that
were basically a report from whatever security software someone was
running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something
along the lines of this:
"HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY
SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!"
The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :)
jms
