[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well I have read all those nice gentlemen who would like to sue > the world
No, Rene, it's not about to sue the world... > because of machines which are trying to crack their > business. ... and it's not about business (at least for me) at all. One can realize the Internet as a business, and many certainly really do it, looking for competition, but the key-word here should be always _cooperation_ > But my point is, what to do with all those mechanical attacks as > IIS worms trying to access machines for months from the same IP? IMO, the first thing to do is think about them as problems and getting worried. When the freedom slaves only the law really frees. Soon governments around the world will be deploying regulatory acts on net issues trying to civilize it on what the own netizens have failed. > Or other > way round, are we one hundred percent sure that our machine wasn't used > for any abuse? If 100% percent sure is not possible, in a range from 0% to 99% we still have to decide on wich level we want to live. > What if you are going to sue 70 years old grandmother > because someone hacked her computer before and used it and then > he disappeared? A non-sense. I wouldn't do that. Better buy specific hardaware & software & books, get expertise, and (the must) fight that things in the apropriate battlefield. The Internet doesn't need lawyers, but real netizens, IMO. > >> Make sure your not running IIS :-) If you are, patch it! >> >> Apart from that I just ignore it, and secretly wish that some script kiddie >> will wipe the hard drive of the infected machine. >> >> Andrew Tait > > > Rene Skoba > Sysadmin --- Luiz * sum cuique tribuere -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
