I actually wrote a script to do something like this, though I'm not sure what I did with it. I gave up on it because I felt that it was a legal risk. It wasn't destructive, just issued the beloved "net stop" command so the remote machine would quit attacking me. Still, a lawsuit would suck.
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin O'Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: code red retaliations On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:39:36PM -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > I cant sem to find the old copy of the code red retaliation I had. > However, a > quick search on google.com for code red counter and/or nimda counter turns up > plenty of links to code to turn an attacking machine into the one being > attacked > -- Hmmm. I've never seriously considered doing anything like this, but I've been getting so many code red and nimda attacks that it's beginning to tempt me. However, I wonder about both the ethics and legalities of this. You know that a normal attacker is subject to legal sanctions in the USA? At least in theory, and occasionally in practice. I'm not convinced that retaliation would be a legal defense (let alone moral) for an attack, particularly on a system that was already more victim itself than a culprit. Comments? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html "Life is short; eat dessert first!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
