On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 15:23, John Nemeth wrote:
> The flip side to this is that the day when people are held
> responsible for not securing their servers and allowing them to be used
> to attack others is probably not very far off. I can see this be
> similar to "attractive nuisance" laws.
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From: "Mark Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Great idea but unfeasible. In Virginia, this would be considered
malicious
programming and probably computer trespass as well :-(
I used to live in Virginia and I don't miss that place. I cringe ev
Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Great idea but unfeasible. In Virginia, this would be considered malicious
programming and probably computer trespass as well :-(
I used to live in Virginia and I don't miss that place. I cringe even
when I have to drive through it :)
Only place I know that you c
On Aug 27, 5:47am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/06/2006 10:45:39
} AM:
}
} > Not that I would necessarily condone this type of activity, but with the
} > amount of spam/spyware/adware/phishing attempts I see in a day, wouldn't
} > be a really interesting project to do
Great idea but unfeasible. In Virginia, this would be considered malicious
programming and probably computer trespass as well :-(
> > create a network of computers like SETI, where nice home users run a
> > program on their computer that will take idle cycles and put false
> > usernames and passw
Mark Johnson wrote:
> create a network of computers like SETI, where nice home users run a
> program on their computer that will take idle cycles and put false
> usernames and passwords to these sites. If enough people
> participated, the data collected by the phishers would be so bad,
> noone wou
You'd probably be taking out (somewhat) innocent third parties. Most of
the phishing web sites are on legit servers that have been compromised. I
guess you could argue that they deserve it for not securing their servers,
but I doubt the owner would feel that way when their business just dies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/06/2006 10:45:39
AM:
> Not that I would necessarily condone this type of activity, but with the
> amount of spam/spyware/adware/phishing attempts I see in a day, wouldn't
> be a really interesting project to do something like this? Set up a
> database somewhere
This is WY off-topic, but I was wondering what others opinions were
of this. I sat in on a security lecture given by a very reputable
speaker. Every aspect of security was touched upon, but the rising
issue of phishing really caught my attention. I could never figure out
why people would
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