Most of the attacks we've seen have been from Chinese and eastern European IPs. I suppose it could be a Chinese or Russian grandma tho :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Lambert" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Brute Force Attack on Mikrotik Gateway > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:00:05PM -0700, Tom Sharples wrote: >> I've often wondered, is it legal for the receipient of this sort >> of thing, to retailiate with e.g. ping or curl storms? > > No. Flat no. And most of the time, your retaliation would be > against some poor schmuck who simply hasn't kept up to date on their > software updates. Does someone's grandmother's computer deserve > to be beaten up? > > It may be satisfying to to think about, but don't go there. > > -- > Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix > SysAdmin > [email protected] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
