Brilliant. They deserve eveything they get. On a similar note, hackers. Last year our network got taken down by a trojan that some hacker had installed on a clients server who was outside the firewall (he didn't believe he needed a firewall). Subsequently the trojan attacked our switches and routers and screwed up the IP tables with a spoof attacked which meant the router no longer knew which IP belonged to which server, and made a right mess I can tell you.
After being up for 48 hours dealing with screaming customers, I finally went to the pub to have a few well earned brewskies, and overheard some guy telling his mate how he had hacked into some network and done this and that and brought the whole thing down.... Needless to say I was in a hacker killing mood after what had just happened, so I taught him the errors of his ways. Sysadmins 1 Hackers 98,567,875 Ok so 1 is better than 0 :-) Snake -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 September 2006 23:01 To: CF-Talk Subject: OT: A Strike back at last Sorry for the off-topic post but this is such great news I hope you all wont mind ... The newspapers here are reporting that the Australian Federal Police have made an arrest of a Queensland con artist under the Anti-spam laws for sending out more than TWO BILLION emails offering a certain small blue pill used for enhancing a man's weekend entertainment, so to speak. Some interesting facts come to light as a result of this arrest ..... He must have been making some serious dosh from this scam, because his server bill in Holland was to the tune of AUD$14,000 per month (about US$10,000). The Dutch server company must have been really worried about being caught out because they approached the Dutch police, thereby losing themselves a pretty big customer. The penalties for large scale spamming in Australia are up to AUD$220,000 PER DAY! for a first offence, and AUD$1,1MILLION PER DAY for a second offence. Most commentators here this morning are wishing to have a chance to have a few hours alone with the guy in a locked room. -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:252911 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
