Re: Washington Post gives up botnet herder's identity

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

"...almost gives up his identity."

But as the blog post points out:

[snip]

In a small town of a few thousand people, it would otherwise be pretty easy to track the hacker down from his 
description.

[snip]

:-)

- ferg



-- Mike Johnson <mike () enoch org> wrote:

The devil is in the details.  Er, metadata...

Found on digg.com:

http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006/02/19/the_perils_of_metadata



--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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