Re: Huge smurf attack

[Dean Anderson <dean () av8 com>]

At 09:48 AM 1/12/1999 -0800, Dalvenjah FoxFire wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 05:12:22PM +0000, Michael Shields put this into my
mailbox:
> > In article <19990111101351.04195 () dragonlair dal net>,
> > Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah () DAL NET> wrote:
> > > Much as I hate to say it, this seems to be one area where industry
> > > self-regulation has utterly failed. I don't know what would be a better
> > > solution; I hate to suggest government regulation. But I'm at a loss
here.
> > Civil liability?
>
> Possibly. I don't know of anyone who's tried suing over a smurf attack.
> If I could afford the lawyer and the court time I'd do it myself.
> All we really need is one or two good cases to establish some case law;
> then the rest of us can have some legal precedent to point to and say
> "If you don't fix your networks, you're screwed."

Criminal.   DOS attacks are covered by 18 USC 1030.  And I think there
might even be smurf included in the Kevin Mitnick case, but I'm not sure
about that.

                --Dean
        
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