Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-07 Thread Rob Carmichael
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tatercrispies ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; bill machen ; bill machen Cc: bill machen ; kat ; John Draper Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 9:17 PM Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked two

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-07 Thread dk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:52:30 GMT, n3td3v said: I think heads should roll over this. I think its the worst act a corporation has ever undertaken in the history of the internet. Hmm.. I don't know. Verisign's hijacking of *.com wildcards and several different Microsoft

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-06 Thread Bart . Lansing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/03/2004 07:50:36 PM: And if the spammers don't like my packets being sent to their system, all they have to do is send me a polite e-mail asking to be removed from my flood-list. It is really quite simple! Wow. Obviously you are not responsible for

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-06 Thread Pierre-Yves Bonnetain
Hi, Bob Smith wrote: The Internet has always been about vigilante justice. Aside from exceptionally egregious cases of wrongdoing, like sexually explicit material with children, fraud, or flagrant piracy, the Internet exists and operates beyond the boundaries of any one nation's laws. It is up

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:52:30 GMT, n3td3v said: I think heads should roll over this. I think its the worst act a corporation has ever undertaken in the history of the internet. Hmm.. I don't know. Verisign's hijacking of *.com wildcards and several different Microsoft stunts may very well

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-06 Thread Tatercrispies
Self regulate is NOT self retaliate. Why not? Why can't retaliation be a form of regulation? Is your objection in general, or is there a specific to this case? To go back to a previous message; in attacking spammers, I see the end result as being the greater good. Despite what another

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-06 Thread bkfsec
Jason wrote: It is an effective method to make your voice heard using a different form and it is not only acceptable it is a form of peaceful protest IMHO. My question is how effective at stopping spam can it actually be? For this to work, you not only have to DDoS dedicated SPAM systems, you

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-04 Thread Chris Umphress
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 21:52:30 +, n3td3v [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The argument that Lycos EU are not DDos'ing is not washable. Its DDoS plain and simple. Of course it's a form of DDoS. But who started it? Remember, Lycos provides e-mail services which the spammers have been taking advantage

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-04 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, n3td3v wrote: It is and never will be an acceptable and effective way to beat spam or any other misuse of the internet. [...] Spammers and hax0rs will not allow Lycos EU to build its bot network of screensavers, if and when the site comes back online again. Why would they

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-04 Thread Devdas Bhagat
On 05/12/04 01:06 +0100, Pavel Kankovsky wrote: snip (*) For instance, one of our servers was joe-jobbed in June. The poor machine was unable to handle the extra traffic (400-500 mails/hour) and per hour? Try a few thousand per minute. http://nixcartel.org/~devdas/minute.png (those are real

[Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-03 Thread n3td3v
I think heads should roll over this. I think its the worst act a corporation has ever undertaken in the history of the internet. I think it sends out a bad example to the rest of the security community that DDoS is acceptable. It is and never will be an acceptable and effective way to beat spam or

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-03 Thread Bob Smith
I think heads should roll over this. I think its the worst act a corporation has ever undertaken in the history of the internet. So speaketh n3td3v, prohpet, visionary, lord and leader of Full Disclosure. The Internet has always been about vigilante justice. Aside from exceptionally egregious

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-03 Thread Bob Smith
I think heads should roll over this. I think its the worst act a corporation has ever undertaken in the history of the internet. So speaketh n3td3v, prohpet, visionary, lord and leader of Full Disclosure. The Internet has always been about vigilante justice. Aside from exceptionally egregious

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-03 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 03 Dec 2004, at 16:38, Bob Smith wrote: Everyone who downloaded that screensaver did so intentionally, this wasn't a trojan operating behind the scenes. The participants were willing combatants, the engine happened to come from Lycos this time, but there have been other efforts in the past as

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-03 Thread Micah McNelly
And if the spammers don't like my packets being sent to their system, all they have to do is send me a polite e-mail asking to be removed from my flood-list. It is really quite simple! Wow. Obviously you are not responsible for authorizing payment to transit providers and have no idea how

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-03 Thread Andrew Farmer
For those who don't want to figure it out for themselves, here's a diff from this to the second message. Go figure. On 03 Dec 2004, at 16:38, Bob Smith wrote: I think heads should roll over this. I think its the worst act a corporation has ever undertaken in the history of the internet. So

Re: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-03 Thread Bob Smith
You really think generating *terabytes* of junk traffic is a good way to solve problems? As n3td3v said, legitimizing this sort of attack would be a justification of DDoSes of all sorts. Someone has a web site you don't like? DDoS it! Idiot on IRC? DDoS him! Who cares if it slows down traffic

RE: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU heads and team to resign or be sacked

2004-12-03 Thread xtrecate
Yes when n3td3v says jump, major corporations around the world say how high. Lol. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of n3td3v Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Full-Disclosure] I'm calling for LycosEU