Re: Recent Attacks

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () cospo osis gov>]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:44:23PM -0800, Ryan Russell wrote:
...
> OK then, what's fair damages for writing Internet Scanner, an evil haxor
> tool?  How about releasing the "firewall" toolkit full of holes?  $100M
> each?

In all fairness, the FWTK had its share of bugs [being uncommented did
not help!], but not many holes, if any.  It was the best of its kind at
the time.  And people were warned that it was specifically NOT a
firewall - only a set of tools that could be used by KNOWLEDGEABLE
professionals to build a firewall.  And it was never sold for any use
whatsoever.

Some current users seem to have lost sight of that ... and many seem to
be using other tools to open holes in the firewall.

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support                                     EMT-B
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