RE: Scare Me !!

[Eric Budke <budke () budke com>]

I've been in about 50 and have yet to see one.  I have seen reaction, but
more at a government (entity) level. But, never strike-back, it is usually
a response of the wire-cutter type.

Maybe the definition of "strike-back" includes blocking that host at a
router or firewall. I don't think most of us consider that "strike-back"
though.

At 10:53 PM 6/15/99 -0400, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
> > supporting anecdotes:
> > - 102 of Fortune 500 have Internet "strike-back" capabilities
>
> Name 5.
> No, name 3.
>
> I can't imagine that the legal departments of a single FORTUNE 500
> firm would be so negligent as to bless such activity. Nor can
> I imagine that anyone with a reasonable security background would
> be so stupid. The only place that I've seen that (never at a
> customer site) was in a particular hype-ridden article that was
> promulgated based on an interview with a well-known industry
> hypester.

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