RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] l33t kiddies (was network scanning?)

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

That is so damn funny. Priceless.

I will say using script kiddie stuff should probably be a job requirment
for security folks. I like to pick over it now and then just to see what
people can do with little or zero knowledge. I've seen some of those
programs that were only 5 or 6 lines long that would knock out an entire
network (usually Windows machines) in half an hour and not even require
the user have any idea what they are doing. Email one of those things to
someone inside an organization (behind protective firewalls) and tell them
it'll allow them to download porn without their boss being able to see..
they run it and you've just taken them out for a while and quite possibly
gotten at least one person fired.. possibly several as the security folks
will see heat for not protecting the network from internal threats.
Using multiple rings of security is not an option. :)

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

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Neil Bradshaw wrote:

> Script kiddies are idiots. They really are. Sometimes it's fun to give one
> trouble when they think they are elite and will own you. Thanks to the
> movie "Hackers", script kiddies are under the illusion that an IP is just
> like a telephone number, and all you have to do is enter it into a program
> and you've h4x0r3d them.
> 
> For great fun on the IRC, tell the little punks that your ip is 127.0.0.1,
> and that they are too unskilled to hack it. I did this one time, and a guy
> claimed he got in, uploaded viruses, and was going to use my machine as a
> Wingate (a hacked Windows box used to commence other illegal
> activites). When I told him that 127.0.0.1 was his local loopback, then
> told him what a loopback was, he promptly left me alone.

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