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Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way
From: "Richard Thomas" <buglord () ex-pressnet com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 06:33:14 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Karl Denninger <karl () mcs net> To: Jay R. Ashworth <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us> Cc: nanog () merit edu <nanog () merit edu> Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 3:54 PM Subject: Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way
Since they don't cooperate, the only two defenses are:
1. Black-hole detected amplifier networks (what we're doing here).Indeed. And what I think is the best approach. Kick 'em in the nads^Wnets.Not really. The best approach is to nail a few of these folks with felony indictments for the denial of service attacks, and the theft of the amplifier network's services. That would stop this practice cold.
Unfortunantly I highly doubt this will have much impact. Firstly, all of the "smurf kiddies" are using hacked shells, so when you trace it back to them they don't care, they just move to the next machine. Secondly, the most annoying and persistant smurfers (read "conflict") are too stupid to know better even if you start bumping off smurfers left and right. You're likely to scare the casual immoral network admin who smurfs his isp's competition or such, but thats about it. My strategy is to hit the smurfers where it hurts, the broadcasts. I email the broadcast network, and their uplink, and their uplink, until something gets done. If you can exaust their broadcasts quickly enough it becomes too "expensive" for them to continue.
Current thread:
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way, (continued)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Joe Shaw (Jun 21)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Brett Frankenberger (Jun 21)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Joe Shaw (Jun 22)
- smurf amplifier vs one workstation Brian Pape (Jun 22)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Hal Murray (Jun 22)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Karl Denninger (Jun 22)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Steve Sobol (Jun 16)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Curt Howland (Jun 17)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Steve Sobol (Jun 17)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Karl Denninger (Jun 16)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Steve Sobol (Jun 16)
- Re: Government scrutiny is headed our way Steve Sobol (Jun 16)
- RE: Government scrutiny is headed our way Charles Sprickman (Jun 22)