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On Wed, 15 May 2002, Rob Thomas wrote: > ] scanning would quickly become self defeating as attackers would only > ] manage to cut themselves off from the net. > To some degree, yes. Most of the miscreants are clueful enough not to > scan from their home machines. I disagree. They have to start somewhere. Most miscreants first attack offshore hosts, then use those to attack domestic victims. > The end result is a lot of hacked hosts are black holed. And this is a bad thing? > On one hand you could say "serves 'em right for being hacked!" On the > other hand, you could wonder why it is that the non-geek broadband users > must be system, network, and firewall administrators. They don't. This is purely a response to rogue networks/blackhats and apathetic/irresponsible/toothless NOCs. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]
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