On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Jack Solomon wrote:
> Would someone please explain the benefit of retaliatory scans? As a
> white-hat, my responsibility is to protect our internal systems from risks
> (virus, hacking, spamming, stupid users). While it would be interesting to
> get into infowarfare, which is essentially what this is, I don't see the
> gain.
There is none. 90% at least will hit innocent systems that have nothing to
do with the original scan at all or be rooted systems that should be
removed from the net.
Hugo.
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