Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] network scanning?

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Mike Miller wrote:

> You do know that you can be charged with a serious crime if your booby
> trapped home kills or injures a burglar, right?

If I ever get enough $$$ to build a home to my desired specs it wouldn't
be in the US.. or any country.. so it wouldn't matter. Even so it doesn't
really matter.

> I don't think that "Be very paranoid" is good advice!  Every time someone
> physically attacks you, you are proved right, but all the rest of the time
> you are worrying for no reason.  You might never be physically attacked by
> anyone for the rest of your life.  I say "Be very relaxed."  Enjoy
> yourself more.  Live in a decent neighborhood and don't bar the windows.

You can be extremely paranoid without being afraid. I've yet to see how
the neighborhood you live in saves you from creepy bad guys. Good
neighborhoods are better targets and thus get more creepy bad guys taking
the time to roam from their bad neighborhood over so they score more for
their troubles. *shrugs*

> The lesson you should take from your paranoid high school years is that
> you were *wrong*.  The government did *not* want to kill you and you were
> worrying for no good reason.

How do I know the government doesn't want to kill me? I'm sure they
probably keep lists of people that are good at such things as hacking and
bomb making. Just to take a guess I'd say whatever notes written down by
my shrinks and other school staff in highschool has made it's way into
some kind of hotlist. The same people that were intelligent enough to
start hunting down geeks that like to wear black after those lame ass
school shootings. *shrugs* I'm half kidding about being on some hotlist
but I've wondered at times. The very fact that I have yet to be charged
with any criminal act seems very suspicious to me.

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