Re: A question for the list...

[Chip Mefford <cmefford () avwashington com>]

Jimi Thompson wrote:
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > At last year's Blackhat conference in Las Vegas, Tim Mullen presented 
> > what
> > turned out to be a very controversial proposal. Briefly, he questioned 
> > why
> > it would be inappropriate to strike back and disable (if not remove) a
> > worm from hosts that are clearly not being adequately managed.
>
> </SNIP>
>
> I have isolate the item above since it contains the gist of your 
> question.  My personal feeling is that sooner or later the owners of the 
> mis-managed devices in question will be held to the legal definition of 
> negligence which covers the "failure to take safe guards used by a 
> reasonable and prudent individual". 

I don't think that this is the case.
Not that it couldn't be the case, but if
we say, Use "spammer" in place of worm host,,,

Many of us feel that spamming as it is practiced
(just about every way possible) is not proper network
use, and is in fact willful mismanagement. No one
is actually being taken to task, so many folks
have adopted a somewhat passive strike back by
using black hole lists to disallow access to
their sections of the network.

Isn't this sort of the same thing?


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