Re: publicly available resources and the law

[ark () eltex ru]

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nuqneH,

Fyodor <fyodor () dhp com> said :

 
> Even though the worry of legal problems is extremely low, there is a very
> good chance that if you make a habit of scanning large numbers of hosts,
> you (or your ISP) will eventually get a complaint from some anal sysadmin.  
Muahaha! Yess! I am the anal sysadmin :))
Why do i sometimes behave like that? Because i *hate* script kiddies.
I get approx. 2 scans a day on each of my networks. Most were done not with
nmap but by some tool that scans from src port 65535.

1) IMAP scans (~50% of all). What do they idiots expect to find? IMAP
holes are old and why the hell to run IMAP if pop3 does fit most of
people's needs?

2) NetBus/BO/etc scans.. guys who expect others to have done the hardest
job for them..

3) Other small-range scans, not more than 5 ports a time, usually one, well-known thingies like pop3, imap (fuck!), 
dns/tcp and so on.

4) less that 10% of whole amount of scanning attempts. Wide port range
scans to check what services are running (not to find all hosts that run
service x). OS fingerprinting, too.

So what do i do with that? It depend on how i feel today. If i am just
slightly depressed (as usual) i don't care. If i am in really bad mood,
i send complaints.  I think it is just _stupid_ to scan everything
without knowing what are you going to find. It is as stupid as hacking
a computer without knowing if there could be something interesting or
not, like cretins do who fuck around university networks breaking in every
shitty host they see. I hate this new generation of idiots who think
the most desirable and important computer on the company's net is web
server. 

I remember it was a great pleasure and satisfaction to get a moron who
continuously tried Irix exploits on our web server that ran Digital Unix
arrested by sweddish police. If that dumb ass just pointed his browser
on the main page he could see "powered by Digital Unix" logo there and
probably could change his fate.

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