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Re: New mail blocks result of Ralsky's latest attacks?

  • From: Fred Baker
  • Date: Sun Oct 12 02:22:15 2003 
At 09:07 AM 10/10/2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

Out of curiousity, has anyone tried turning this over to law
enforcement?  It's another form of hacking, but the money trail back
through the spammers might provide enough evidence for prosecution.
From my read, it sounds sufficient in its own right. This month's Communications of the ACM has an interesting article on addressing it as "trespass on chattel" - attacking someone's property in a manner that reduces their ability to use it or uses it without their permission for purposes they don't agree with. Breaking into a server and using it for a purpose its own doesn't authorize sounds a lot like trespass against chattel to me.

It might be interesting for him to wake up in the morning with 50 lawsuits at his door seeking damages in the quantity of money spent horsing around with him.