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Re: Researchers ping through first full 'Internet census' in 25 years

  • From: Justin M. Streiner
  • Date: Fri Oct 12 10:05:53 2007

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Leigh Porter wrote:

You are more likely to get 5000 zonealarm emails.... 

Got tons of those...
...and BlackIce, DShield, Norton, SamSpade, and all the rest :)

But there were also lots of people who took time out of their busy day to personally write their own flaming emails, rather than just relying on the boilerplate reports many of the packages above commonly send out. I felt honored :)

jms

Justin M. Streiner wrote:

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