Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

["Sholes, Joshua" <Joshua_Sholes () cable comcast com>]

Ha!

³Easy², in my personal experience (having once upon a time caught a hacker
in .ro, but it took six months of work to seal the deal with handcuffs).

-- 
Josh Sholes



On 3/12/14, 12:37 PM, "Andrew D Kirch" <trelane () trelane net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I found that finding them on IRC, or wherever it is that they
> congregate, and simply talking to them until they incriminate themselves
> tends to work best.  I also found that firewalls, IDS, security audits,
> antivirus, antimalware etc work almost not at all.  The reason for this
> is pretty simple.  Cybercrime is not a technical problem and does not
> have a technical solution.  The solution is just like any other criminal
> act, find them, get them to confess, and then put a real world face and
> location to the IRC persona.  Easy.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 3/12/2014 12:16 PM, Warren Bailey wrote:
> > I heard cheese works really well for catching crackers.
> >
> >
> > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
> >
> >
> >
> > -------- Original message --------
> > From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net>
> > Date: 03/12/2014 9:08 AM (GMT-08:00)
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Subject: Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?
> >
> >
> > On 3/12/2014 5:41 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
> >
> > > TIINAL - The Internet Is Not A Lawyer.
> > NANOGINTI
> >
> > There ARE rules in the environment, however.  For example, there is one
> > that I am too lazy to look-up that argues for the use of a .sig
> > separator "-- ".
> >
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Roland Dobbins <rdobbins () arbor net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
> > >
> > >           Luck is the residue of opportunity and design.
> > >
> > >                        -- John Milton
> >
> > --
> > Requiescas in pace o email           Two identifying characteristics
> >                                           of System Administrators:
> > Ex turpi causa non oritur actio      Infallibility, and the ability to
> >                                           learn from their mistakes.
> >                                             (Adapted from Stephen
> > Pinker)