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Re: Port 555 scan
From: "Robert G. Ferrell" <root () rgfsparc cr usgs gov>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:45:31 -0600
Question: How does the community feel about my taking a more 'Active' role in determining what was happening on this rooted box?
Well, first of all, have you taken every possible step to try to notify the admin of the box? If the answer to the above is "yes," then I'd say the only ethical thing you can do is to alert as many people as you can with the details (which you have to a large extent already done) and protect your own systems. Vigilantism, no matter how tempting, is rarely if ever justified, IMO. Cheers, RGF Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP ======================================== Who goeth without humor goeth unarmed. ========================================
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