Yes, MIT in Boston, MA was successfully used in the large attack against
Yahoo and other various players of their caliber. The school was held
responsible since it was their equipment that was used in the attack.
(I applied for a position there and was told about this by the Director of
Nuclear Science.)
Considering how little regard they have for security and how against
security they are on the basis of being a "research environment in which
security would stiffle inovation", they can undoubtably expect more legal
trouble until they forego that line of thinking and actually realize that
research environment doesn't mean precludement from responsible behaviour.
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> #The targets of DDOS activity launched from unsecure systems may not
> #agree with that statement. More importantly, their lawyers and a
> #jury in a civil suit may not.
>
> Has anybody successfully prosecuted a business that was used as a launching
> ground for a DDOS attack or any other type of hacking activity? What does
> it take for a small business to fulfill the "due diligence" required by a
> court of law anyway. A LynkSys isn't exactly equivalent to a Sidewinder or
> even a PIX for that matter but it is used by many small businesses with
> DSL. Unless the law requires all Internet connections to have
> firewalls/virus detection/intrusion detection/strong authentication/ect. it
> is perfectly legitimate for a small business to not have a secure network
> that they do not need nor can they afford to pay for as long as they don't
> have confidential material like personal information on customers on those
> systems.
>
>
> Regards,
> Jeffery Gieser
>
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