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Re: scripts kiddie sites

  • From: Shawn McMahon
  • Date: Fri Jul 07 11:50:46 2000 
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:35:52AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> 
> There is an inherent problem here.  Newer Internet phone systems allow 
> anonymous dialin.  We have such a system in Israel (2+ years) and I know 
> one like that exists in the UK.  The monopoly phone company sets up a 
> special number like "135", users dialin - no authentication, no user/pswd, 
> just PPP to one specific site.  The user fires up their browser and 
> connects to the phone company Web portal which has a large table of ISPs 
> and rates.  The user clicks on the one they want and all the packets now 
> flow via that ISP.  No authentication.  Pure anonymous PPP.  [Technical 
> side has been over-simplified.]  The phone company bills the user on their 
> phone bill and splits the revenues then with the ISP.  The ISP no longer 
> needs modems, or any authentication system, just a large leased line to the 
> phone company virtual POPs and a bank account to receive the monthly checks.

There is a problem here, but it's not *MY* problem.

If that becomes a source of too many attack on my systems, I'll block it.

If that means disenfranchising Israel, well:

1) You made your bed, now you can lie in it.

2) You've survived disenfranchisement by far more powerful people than me.  :-)

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