Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] network scanning?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I'd open a new account under a different name and continue with my @Home
service within short order. I've never had an ISP so much as card me
besides verifying I had a real ID. Unless your service was pulled for lack
of $$$ most don't even note why you were cutoff in their computers.

I get scanned several times a day and don't care unless I think they have
found something. If they have found something then I'll fix it and maybe
share my logs with anyone else interested but it's a technical issue and I
don't see how the cops or ISP etc have anything to do with it. I for one
would retaliate against anyone I found out reported me to anyone for
scanning their systems. Maybe it's just paranoia on my part. :)

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Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://www.kavlon.com

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Michael wrote:
> 
> > I never have bothered to report scans/attacks to the ISPs themselves
> > as it is so easy to find a new ISP.
> 
> Suppose @home booted you off of cable modem.  Then what would you do?
> It's not all that easy to cope with, and I definitely wouldn't want it to
> happen to me.
> 
> It must be easy for these people to scan freely and attack any machine in
> the world that they feel like attacking when everyone feels helpless and
> no one complains to ISPs.  I would say that I am scanned about 5 times per
> day.  There are probably only a few thousand people in the world causing
> all the trouble.  I think we can make a big dent by complaining about it.
> I also think that warning kids (I assume most of them are kids) about
> their scanning activities might help to stop them from getting into more
> serious trouble.  Also, as I said before, many attacks are from
> compromised machines that the owner doesn't know are compromised.  If we
> don't tell them they were compromised, they'll never figure it out.

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