> From: Randy Hammock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Re: Lycos Screen saver that attacks > Spammers, Ah more off topic... > > Lycos Screen Saver / Legal Zombies? Just wait until someone figures out > how to hack all those Lycos zombies out there to perform DDoS's. What > makes one zombie legal and another illegal? >
Legal = Volunteerily downloaded with full understanding of circumstances and consequences, and no packet spoofing or RFC violations. Illegal = Covertly installed allowing remote control of a system, modifying of packets to hide source IP address, ignoring RFC rules to cause a denial of service through exhaustion of resource (SYN flood, exhausting sessions), attempting active exploits against sources to gain unauthorized access, spreading itself in a virus like manner, etc... How is their screensaver any different than running a local Google server, (other than the fact the requests are much more targetted) or having the site Slashdotted? (which BTW, all the targets have been) Heck it was even nice of them to build in traffic throttling, although I for one am curious to know how that worked seeing as the clients don't know about each other... hmm... Now, while they supposedly built their screensaver to "play nice" so as to avoid criminal prosecution, it doesn't keep them from being sued on a civil basis. And according to one of the sites they marked for death, I think they'll be seeing some Cease and Desist letters here shortly. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
