I've dealth with security for some time on Unix/Linux systems. Some of my favorite products certainly have the ability to perform a counter attack however the author of those products always warn the user NOT to taunt happy fun ball. :-)
You will only annoy the attacker (presuming it's not a zombie) and you will become a target. Just a warning.
Daniel Staal wrote:
--As off Saturday, February 7, 2004 12:37 PM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia is alleged to have said:
What is to stop a spammer or script kiddie finding out about your ruse, possibly even listening in on the conversation, and rather than trying to hack your system starts sending out mass emails to people with a URL in it that directs them to your system and that URL, all of a sudden your victims become his victims and he has used you in a scheme to haunt the very users you wished to defend.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Or, the more likely scenario: Launching his attack from a compromised computer in the first place. (That is, the first attempt to contact you is from some poor computer that the script kiddie has already compromised. Not their own computer. Not even someone who knows they are running the script kiddie's software.)
After all, that is the normal way they work...
Daniel T. Staal
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