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Re: Rooted Boxes
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr () ECLIPSED NET>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:23:08 -0500
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:53:18PM +0100, Christian W. Zuckschwerdt wrote:
Is it okay to send a report to abuse@each-isp or perhaps a more suitable address?
If you're comfortable being unsure whether or not it's a legitimate sysadmin responding to the email, go right ahead. (There have been several reported cases of emails sent to the owners of rooted boxes, to which the helpful, remote sysadmin got concerned replies about fixing the problem... from the script kiddies. The real sysadmin never saw the mail.) A phone number is still more reliable, till some form of identity verification (PGP?) is more widespread. ~ g r @ eclipsed.net
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