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Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years
From: Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:13:26 -0400
Ok. To make my own contribution to this thread hijack somewhat operational... How many people have had to add to their NOC/Abuse desk SOP:"When someone calls threatening that they are the FBI/CIA/NSA/Your grandmother returned from the dead...
<something, something, something> but essentially, "Don't Panic. And they are basically a crackpot."" Deepak Gadi Evron wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails....Or a place on dshield's top 10.Justin M. Streiner wrote:On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote:You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about.I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that were basically a report from whatever security software someone was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something along the lines of this: "HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!" The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :) jms
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- Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Roy (Oct 11)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Hank Nussbacher (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Chris Owen (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Justin M. Streiner (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Leigh Porter (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Justin M. Streiner (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Gadi Evron (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Deepak Jain (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Justin M. Streiner (Oct 12)
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- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Paul Ferguson (Oct 11)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Randy Bush (Oct 11)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Paul Ferguson (Oct 11)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Duane Wessels (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Leigh Porter (Oct 12)
- Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years Duane Wessels (Oct 12)