On June 4, 2018 at 17:01 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote: > once upon a time, when one received what had yet to be called spam, or > logs showed an attack, one wrote to the owner of the source ip to tell > them their system had been hacked. dunno about everyone else, but i > stopped doing that sometime in the '80s.
I remember one night, early 1990s, watching keystrokes of a guy who'd gotten into one of our systems and realized I knew the owner of the system he was coming in from, a name most of you would recognize, so called him at home at like 2AM which was appreciated. ISTR that was the guy who was actually typing VMS commands to a unix shell which is why I wasn't all that concerned, other than the holes he'd used to get a shell prompt which is what I was trying to track down. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*