-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, July 12, 2002, Greg Strong wrote...
> Your point is a matter of perspective. Personally those who sit on the > side of taking control of others PC, then using it for DOS attack or > other malicious purpose should be behind bars without access to any > PC. I don't care what country they live. I meant fun as in a bad term. I personally don't think it is fun at all, and have myself spent many hours working against that kind of attack. Some script kiddie would love to even come up with such a simple idea. > I'm not going to lose any sleep over it, but until the international > legal community can get on the same page the sleeziness will continue. Unfortunately a very difficult thing to do, although a couple of US server operators have started taking legal actions against a number of Romanians with co-operation with the FBI, and CIA, for illegal use of servers, and DDoS attacking servers. > Probably won't happen because politics involved. What this does do > is create demand in the security software market. Very true... unfortunately until there is one legal system, or at least a centralized legal system when it comes to internet related activities, laws like that are going to be difficult to impose. > As a final thought I have read somewhere where the AV software > companies were actually working with hackers who wrote virus/trojan > programs. It was never confirmed. <g> That really wouldn't surprise me. In fact some security companies actually hire 'ex-hackers' as top 'security' consultants purely for their history, and knowledge. Wonder if Microsoft ever thought of doing that ;) - -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 6.5.8ckt iQA/AwUBPS9OACuD6BT4/R9zEQINpACbB+X67M13SiuetbotEvsDs6OjS8sAoKA8 uH/KcJQAOK4d9bQh+I/T2aqE =rKuB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60q FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
