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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: My First Denial of Service Attack..... (fwd)
I think that there are appropriate (and possibly over-harsh depenidng on what combination of laws are applied) laws on the books to cover SYN-storm-type DoS attacks. I pity the first few who get caught... Avi > > Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 11:40:25 -0400 > > From: Dave Van Allen <[email protected]> > > To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: My First Denial of Service Attack..... > > [...] > > and we had the name of the user, > > their ISP, and other info in less than 15 minutes. > > Just out of curiosity, what is the penalty for this sort of activity? > > Note that people didn't seem to take software piracy very seriously > until the Software Publishers Association was able to extract some > fairly heavy fines from some large corporations. Up until that time, > there was, in effect, no penalty for software piracy. > > (This sounds like a good NANOG topic for some adventuresome soul...) > > -tjs > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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