hi ya
usually the local police does NOT do anything about cyber-crimes...
but if its a criminal issue... they might be willing to do more ...
if there is $10K or was it $15k of damages... than the FBI gets involved
and is interested in nailing cyber-criminals...
- at least thats what we needed to show to get them involved
and i think they confiscated about 15 servers...
if this hacking/sniffing/stalking is in silicon valley area...
we'd be interested in tracking that hacker/cracker/sniffer down
and if nothing else... she needs to reinstall her OS and other stuff
to minimize her chances that he is in there with a trojan ...
- and apply all the MS security patches.. if she is using MS
and/or other os and its patches
- or spend the time to find out what/how he is in there...
have fun linuxing
alvin
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Ron DuFresne wrote:
>
> This lady needs to contact the local police. She is being stalked and
> needs to have this dealt with by the proper authorities. chances are good
> that even if he losses interest in her, unless his actions are checked,
> he'll most likely direct the same stalking methods on someone else down
> the road.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne
>
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Delcourt, Rick wrote:
>
> >
> > Evan,
> > This is utter hogwash. I have worked with T1 lines for the better
> > part of 8 years and they are not much different than dial-up, ISDN or DSL.
> > Just faster and permanent. They are usually supplied by one of the
> > telecommunications companies, such as ATT, Sprint or MCI. And as far as I
> > know, they only charge you an installation fee and monthly service fee. They
> > DON'T require bonds!
> >
> > Tell your friend to ask this guy for his contractor ID or DoD access
> > tag number. Since he is supposed to be working for the government and has
> > ALREADY compromised his security clearance, this info is now accessable by
> > the public. :-) If that doesn't work, just tell her to put him on her ignore
> > list (or whatever is comparable).
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:16 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: OT: T1 and logs
> >
> >
> > This is so off-topic and non-business related that I would almost expect a
> > few flames, but I'm curious, and a friend of mine is rather scared, so I'm
> > hoping a few of you might help out.
> >
> > A friend of mine chats online on a service call "PalTalk". Apparently, she's
> > run into a guy that, I think, is trying to intimidate her. She doesn't know
> > much about computers, and where she knows I work with them, she asked me a
> > question about her situation. However, I've never worked with a T1 line, so
> > I can't really answer her.
> >
> > Here's the deal. I guess on PalTalk, you can chat in an open room, or you
> > can chat with someone in what they call a private message, or private chat,
> > or something. Apparently, he's been kind of stalking her. He'll tell her
> > things like he can see who she talks to and what she says in these private
> > chats. He's told her that he worked for the DoD in "computer intelligence".
> > For many years. She didn't believe much of this until one day he actually
> > *did* repeat some stuff to her that she said in a private chat with someone
> > else, so now she's scared.
> >
> > Here's a snippet of her words to me about what he's told her:
> >
> > "He talks about his T1 Connection as a "backbone" and "the network". He says
> > that periodically, and each time it goes down and comes back online, he is
> > required by government regulations to go over network activity reports that
> > are generated. He says they are all to do with whatever he is involved
> > with.. and if he's involved with chat rooms.. then he sees "contacts"
> > between people in the room. He is supposed to "check off" on the activity
> > to verify that its correct. And if he sees any irregular activity or if
> > something is incorrect, he has to report it. He says that he had to get a
> > $50,000 bond just to have this T1 connection."
> >
> > This sounds to me like utter bologna, but before I giver her bad
> > information, I wanted to check with those of you that maybe do use T1 lines
> > and see if any of this could be true?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Evan
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