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On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Chris Owen wrote: You can't consider every wacko on the net when doing something like this. Anyone who considers a ping an attack probably isn't worth worrying about. I tend to agree, but back when I manned the abuse desk (among others) at my former employer, I would see abuse reports come in all the time that were basically a report from whatever security software someone was running on their PC, accompanied by a message that was usually something along the lines of this: "HOST x.x.x.x ON YOUR NETWORK PINGED ME!!!! I TAKE MY SECURITY SERIOUSLY!! I'M CALLING THE FBI!!!" The knee-jerk reaction is rarely the right one :) jms
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