Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] network scanning?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Michael wrote:

> 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.

It wouldn't be in any country?


> You can be extremely paranoid without being afraid.

Because you're so well-armed?


> 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*

Actually, that isn't how it works.  Your idea makes sense, but I'm happy
to report that it is wrong.  For some strange reason, criminals tend to
stick mostly to their own neighborhoods.  In my neighborhood by Limerick
and Wynfield, we didn't have any creepy bad guys around (after Jon King
moved, that is ... kidding!! :-)  Really, no creeps, all good.


> > 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?

One way to tell is that you are very easy to kill and you are still alive.
So they weren't trying very hard.  Another way to tell is that you are not
important enough to be worth killing (maybe that's where you'll argue with
me).  I don't know what they'd have against you, but it isn't enough to
warrant an assassination.


> I'm sure they probably keep lists of people that are good at such
> things as hacking and bomb making.

How would they know how good you are, and just how good are you?  You
might be good at both of those things, but I doubt that you are so good at
them that the government (if they knew about it) would even want to keep a
close eye on you, never mind assassinate you.  I don't think I've ever
heard of a government assassination of a citizen (Ruby Ridge, I know, but
it was an accident) -- so I really don't think they're going to start with
you, even if you are as dangerous and important as you seem to believe you
are.


> 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.

What crimes have you committed?

Mike

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