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Would you perhaps have more underlying problems if a "script kiddie" on a dialup can attack you in such a way to impact your service? Bryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Bruns" <[email protected]> To: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <[email protected]>; "Matt" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 10:20 AM Subject: Re: Abuse Departments > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew S. Hallacy" <[email protected]> > To: "Matt" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 3:18 AM > Subject: Re: Abuse Departments > > > > Most places will take care of abuse issues if they get to the right > person, > > but some places simply won't wake up their network admin at 11:00 on a > saturday > > night because some script kiddie's DSL is getting attacked by another > > script kiddie on IRC. > > > > > Watch yourself poptix - you don't have such a squeaky clean past either. > > Point is this. If your network/servers are being used in an attack against > someone else, you can be held responsible if you do not act in a timely > manner. > > This "script kiddie's DSL" is actually a shared setup with several servers > on the end of it and a firewall. What happens to it also affects me and my > customers. When my customers go down, I get complaints. > > Now, if your network was attacking mine from a comprimised box, and you > failed to act in a timely fashion, regardless if its a DSL or a T1 or a > dialup for that matter, I'd either sue you myself for allowing the attack to > continue, or give my customers your info and let THEM sue you for it. >
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